Wildcat report: No. 19 West Virginia 87, K-State 83, 2OT
No. 19 West Virginia 87, Kansas St. 83, 2OT
WVU | Min | FG-A | FT-A | Reb | A | PF | PT |
Holton | 37 | 2-8 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
Ahmad | 14 | 1-5 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Williams | 25 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 1-5 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Carter | 30 | 2-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
Miles Jr | 32 | 3-8 | 3-3 | 0-3 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
Myers | 8 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Paige | 35 | 9-17 | 6-10 | 4-7 | 1 | 3 | 25 |
Adrian | 13 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Phillip | 30 | 6-8 | 2-4 | 1-4 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
Watkins | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Macon | 24 | 4-4 | 1-2 | 0-5 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
Totals | 250 | 32-68 | 20-31 | 15-43 | 17 | 29 | 87 |
Percentages: FG .471, FT .645. 3-Point Goals: 3-20, .150 (Miles Jr. 1-3, Holton 1-4, Paige 1-5, Phillip 0-1, Adrian 0-2, Carter 0-2, Ahmad 0-3). Team Rebounds: 6. Blocked Shots: 4 (Holton 2, Ahmad, Macon). Turnovers: 15 (Williams 3, Carter 2, Phillip 2, Paige 2, Miles Jr. 2, Ahmad, Holton, Watkins, Adrian). Steals: 10 (Miles Jr. 3, Carter 2, Ahmad 2, Williams, Paige, Macon). Technical Fouls: Bench.
KSU | Min | FG-A | FT-A | Reb | A | PF | PT |
Wade | 38 | 4-6 | 5-8 | 5-8 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
Hurt | 25 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Stokes | 42 | 4-11 | 6-9 | 0-2 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
Edwards | 29 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
Iwundu | 40 | 6-13 | 4-4 | 2-7 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
Ervin II | 11 | 1-3 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Johnson | 29 | 1-3 | 4-7 | 1-6 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
Brown | 28 | 6-12 | 6-8 | 0-3 | 2 | 4 | 20 |
Budke | 8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Totals | 250 | 26-58 | 28-43 | 9-35 | 15 | 24 | 83 |
Percentages: FG .448, FT .651. 3-Point Goals: 3-19, .158 (Brown 2-6, Stokes 1-7, Edwards 0-1, Iwundu 0-1, Ervin II 0-1, Hurt 0-1, Wade 0-2). Team Rebounds: 1. Blocked Shots: 1 (Wade). Turnovers: 15 (Iwundu 7, Edwards 3, Johnson 2, Brown 2, Wade). Steals: 6 (Edwards 2, Johnson 2, Iwundu, Wade). Technical Fouls: None.
West Virginia | 33 | 36 | 6 | 12 | — | 87 |
Kansas St. | 34 | 35 | 6 | 8 | — | 83 |
A—12,270. Officials—Tom O’Neill, Bert Smith, Marques Pettigrew.
Fab frosh
Kansas State got big games from three freshmen playing their first Big 12 games. Most notable was guard Barry Brown’s career-high 20 points.
“I’m glad I played well, but I think we made too many mistakes down the stretch,” Brown said. “All of the freshmen, Dean (Wade), Kamau (Stokes) and myself, we have a lot of confidence out there.”
Stokes added 15 points, with 10 in the first half. Wade, K-State’s third-leading scorer at 10.8 points, finished with 13. It was Stokes’ first time with back-to-back double-digit scoring games after scoring 11 in Tuesday’s win over Saint Louis.
“I think it’s obvious they played pretty well,” K-State coach Bruce Weber said. “Barry with a career game and Kam in the first half, especially.”
Traveling plans
West Virginia coach Bob Huggins had a travel dilemma after Wednesday’s win at Virginia Tech — fly his team back home to Morgantown for one day or head straight to Kansas?
New Year’s Eve, and a game on Monday at TCU, helped settle his plans.
“I figured if you can’t be in Manhattan (N.Y.) for New Year’s Eve, the next best place to be is Manhappiness,” said Huggins, who coached at Kansas State in 2006-07. “Nothing like watching that little apple drop, right?”
Worth noting
It was the first double-overtime game in a K-State game at Bramlage Coliseum.… Referees almost let West Virginia play with six players during the second half on a defensive possession, until Weber pointed it out as K-State was prepared to inbound the ball underneath its own basket. Weber pleaded for a technical foul, but the officials let the Mountaineers remove a player.
Tony Adame
This story was originally published January 2, 2016 at 4:22 PM with the headline "Wildcat report: No. 19 West Virginia 87, K-State 83, 2OT."