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| Points Per Game | 74.9 | 74.2 |
| Scoring Margin | +4.4 | +10.8 |
| Field Goal Percentage | .466 | .435 |
| OPP Field Goal Percentage | .419 | .382 |
| 3-PT Field Goal Percentage | .355 | .347 |
| Opp 3-PT Field Goal Percentage | .332 | .279 |
| Free Throw Percentage | .769 | .759 |
| Rebounds Per Game | 36.4 | 36.6 |
| Assists Per Game | 16.9 | 14.6 |
| Turnovers Per Game | 15.1 | 11.4 |
| Steals Per Game | 7.9 | 7.7 |
| Blocks Per Game | 3.8 | 5.6 |
| Streak | L3 | L1 |
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia is looking to get back to its winning ways this weekend when it travels to Colorado to face the Buffaloes in a Sunday afternoon Big 12 matchup at the CU Events Center in Boulder.
It is the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
Colorado, 9-5 overall and 0-3 in league play, is coming off terrific season in 2024 when it won 26 games and lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Marquette.
Veteran coach Tad Boyle, a Kansas graduate, lost all five starters from that team, including three NBA draft picks – Cody Williams, KJ Simpson and Tristian da Silva. West Virginia coach Darian DeVries said earlier today that he has known Boyle since Boyle’s days as an assistant coach at Wichita State when DeVries was an assistant at Creighton.
Boyle is going nine-deep this year, led by 6-foot-2 senior guard Julian Hammond III, who is averaging a team-best 13.6 points per game.
Washington State transfer Andrej Jakimovski, a 6-foot-8 forward, is contributing 11.4 points and 4.7 rebounds per contest while Elijah Malone, a 6-foot-10 senior center, shows averages of 10.9 points and 3.7 rebounds per game.
Senior forward Trevor Baskin is the team’s top rebounder pulling down 6.2 boards per contest. The 6-foot-8, 205-pounder is also averaging 9.2 points per game.
“They play incredibly hard, and they have great balance,” DeVries said. “They have a roster where everybody averages between eight and 13 points, so they play to their strengths, they do it very well, and they play very well at home. They had Iowa State down five with about nine minutes to go in the game last week.”
Colorado began the season with consecutive victories over Eastern Washington, Northern Colorado, Cal State Fullerton and Harvard, and had a big nonconference win over Connecticut on Nov. 26 in Maui.
Another four-game winning streak against Pacific, Colorado State, South Dakota State and Bellarmine preceded its three-game Big 12 losing skid to Iowa State, Arizona State and UCF.
Colorado also shows losses to Iowa State and Michigan State outside of league play.
In its most recent defeat at UCF on Wednesday night, the Buffaloes turned the ball over 22 times leading to 24 points for the Knights. Colorado shot a sizzling 52.2% and had a five-rebound advantage on the glass but couldn’t get a winning shot to go down at the end.
Hammond scored a career-high 26 points on 8 of 14 shooting, while Jakimovski added 16, including 4 of 5 from 3-point distance. Bangot Dak, a 6-foot-11 center, added 10 and RJ Smith, a 6-foot-3 guard, pulled down a career-high eight rebounds.
Colorado boasts eight players on its roster 6-feet-8 inches or taller and six of them play significant minutes.
“They like to post it, and they like to drive it,” DeVries said. “They are going to try and live in the paint, which is very similar to our last game, so we’ve got to do a better job of keeping the ball out of the paint in this game.”
That will be an issue for an undersized West Virginia team that has been dealing with some injuries.
The Mountaineers (11-3, 2-1) saw their seven-game winning streak come to an end Tuesday night in Morgantown when Arizona defeated them 75-56. DeVries anticipates Colorado using a similar approach of trying to pound it inside when they meet on Sunday afternoon
The Wildcats shot 50.8% from the floor while limiting West Virginia to just 36.2%. Javon Small managed to score 17, but no other Mountaineer player reached double figures. Improved offensive efficiency is something DeVries said his team has been working on in practice since then.
“Our offense has kind of slowed down and bogged down at times, so we’ve got to figure out ways to continue to get more movement and then convert when we do have some good opportunities,” he said. “We had four or five transition opportunities, and we need to get those two-on-ones and convert at a higher rate than what we did.”
A 3 p.m. tipoff has been assigned for Sunday’s game, to be televised on ESPN+.
Mountaineer Sports Network radio coverage with Tony Caridi, Brad Howe and David Kahn will get things started at 2 p.m. on stations throughout West Virginia, online via WVUsports.com, and the Varsity Network and WVU Gameday apps.
WVU will remain on the road and play at Houston next Wednesday night.
