West Virginia Victorious on Senior Night at Hope Coliseum

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Honor Huff scored 24 factors in his last common season dwelling recreation at Hope Coliseum on Friday night time to guide West Virginia to a 77-62 victory over UCF and a season sweep of the Knights.

Huff was a part of a 14-person Senior Night celebration that included gamers, pupil managers and an athletic coach previous to tonight’s recreation.

“I just told the group that I’m incredibly thankful for them and super-happy for them and their parents tonight,” stated West Virginia coach Ross Hodge, who has led the workforce to simply its second non-losing mark in league play within the final 5 seasons. “They’ll never forget Senior Night winning and singing (Take Me Home) Country Roads together in an incredible environment.”

Huff’s game-high scoring whole included 4 3s, which supplies him 398 for his collegiate profession and strikes him inside 12 of cracking the NCAA’s prime 25 all-time.

He was an ideal 10-of-10 from the free throw line.

The Mountaineers’ different double-digit scorers had been additionally seniors: Brenen Lorient with 14, Chance Moore with 13 and Jasper Floyd with 10.

The free throw line was West Virginia’s pal tonight with three extra makes than UCF’s 18 makes an attempt.

West Virginia (18-13 general and 9-9 in Big 12 play) led for all however 26 seconds of the sport, together with its largest lead of 17 factors with 33 seconds remaining.

UCF pulled to inside 4 factors with 12:03 left on Themus Fulks’ layup, however the Mountaineers responded with a 15-4 run over the following three minutes to take management of the sport.

Huff started the run with three free throws, hit a 3 and added three extra from the road to tally 9 of the 15.

WVU held the Knights to simply 38.1% taking pictures and a season-low 62 factors.

UCF (20-10 and 9-9) got here into tonight’s recreation ranked 44^th within the nation averaging 83 factors per recreation and was coming off a 104-point efficiency in opposition to Oklahoma State earlier this week.

Fulks and Riley Kugel led the Knights with 16 factors every.

The Mountaineers have now gained 5 of six within the temporary collection in opposition to UCF, together with all three right here in Morgantown.

An introduced crowd of 11,312 watched tonight’s contest.

WVU is now 11-2 in its final 13 Senior Day video games.

With the victory, West Virginia will end no worse than eighth within the convention standings in Hodge’s first season on the helm, that means a first-round bye in subsequent week’s Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City.

WVU was predicted to complete 11^th within the Big 12’s preseason media ballot.

“When I’ve talked to (his team) the last couple of days, for them to have things go really negative – whether that’s in a game or for an entire game – and then to still have the resolve and the resiliency to scrape themselves off the mat, stay together and stay the course and not blame anybody but just say, ‘We’ve got to do better …’ you can be hurt, and it should hurt, but you can’t wallow in self-pity.”

And they did not this night.

The convention will announce pairings for subsequent week ‘s match following the conclusion of tomorrow night time’s video games.