Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Jevon Carter scored 25 points and became West Virginia's all-time steals leader in the Mountaineers' 102-69 victory over New Jersey Tech of the Atlantic Sun Conference on Thursday night at the WVU Coliseum.
 
Carter surpassed Greg Jones as WVU's top thief, the senior hitting the milestone with 56 seconds left in the first half when he took the ball away from NJIT's Zach Cooks. The Maywood, Illinois, resident finished the game with five giving him 254 for his career - two more than Jones got during his four-year career which ended in 1983.
 
Afterward, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins was less than ecstatic with the way his team played tonight, taking longer than usual after a victory to do his postgame radio show.
 
"I've got two experienced players that I can kind of communicate with (Carter and Daxter Miles Jr.) and the other guys I have a hard time getting them on the right side of the floor, much less knowing what they're supposed to do," he said.
 
West Virginia scored only eight points through the first seven minutes of the first half and trailed the Highlanders by four points before finally awakening. A Carter 3 from the top of the gave WVU a 13-12 advantage, and another Carter triple pushed the margin to four, 18-14.
 
A Bolden 3 with 8:08 remaining made it a five-point lead, 25-20, and then a quick flurry got the advantage to 10, 36-26, on Daxter Miles Jr.'s layup.
 
West Virginia (7-1) finished the half on a 13-7 spurt to take a 16-point lead into the locker room at the break.
 
A fast start to the second half got the margin to 20, 55-35, and it quickly swelled to 29 on a Lamont West 3.
 
"Lamont came back to tonight a little bit and he actually took a charge; got five stitches," Huggins said. "I told him I'm proud of him. He finally stuck his nose in there."
 
The Mountaineers' biggest lead was 37 before things got sloppy when Huggins began to empty his bench. Ten of 11 players scored for West Virginia in tonight's game.
 
Carter's 25 came on 7-of-14 shooting, 5-of-11 from 3. He also grabbed a team-best nine rebounds and handed out six assists in 30 minutes of action.
 
Freshman Teddy Allen came off the bench to score a season-high 16 on 6-of-9 shooting.
 
"I played with a guy here named Stan Boskovich who just found ways to score," Huggins said. "Teddy's that way. He just finds ways to score."
 
West (13), James Bolden 912) and Wesley Harris (11) also reached double figures.
 
"Wes didn't play great, but he played hard again tonight." Huggins said.
 
Sophomore center Sagaba Konate once again got into early foul trouble and spent most of the first half on the bench. He finished with 5 points, five rebounds and five blocks.
 
NJIT (4-3) got 13 points from Anthony Tarke and 12 from Diandre Wilson.
 
"It's easier for me to tell you what I didn't like," Huggins said. "They scored (34) points in the paint and we scored 28. I didn't like that. I didn't like the fact that our point guards didn't get back. As I explained to them, from day one in coaching my point guards have always gotten back and if they didn't get back then I found somebody who would.
 
"I'm about to that point with a couple of those guys. We've got to get back and that just doesn't fall on one guy, but there is one guy whose only responsibility is to get back. The other three guys are supposed to be rebounding and the other guy is like a half-rebounder," Huggins said.

WVU's 102 points was the second time the Mountaineers eclipsed the century mark this year. West Virginia scored 111 points in a victory against Morgan State earlier this year.
 
An announced crowd of 8,882 watched tonight's game.
 
The Mountaineers will spend this weekend getting prepared for Tuesday night's big game against 18^th-ranked Virginia at the Coliseum.
 
The Cavs improved to 7-0 with Tuesday night's 49-37 victory over Wisconsin in Charlottesville and faces Lehigh Saturday at noon.
 
Huggins, unhappy with his team's offensive efficiency the last couple of games, will have some extra time to get his young players prepared for UVA's Pack-Line defense.
 
It will be Virginia's first regular season appearance in Morgantown since 1976 when Huggins was a WVU player.
 
Tipoff is 7 p.m. and the game will be televised nationally on ESPNU. Tickets are still available and can be purchased through the Mountaineer Ticket Office by calling toll-free 1-800-WVU GAME or by going online at WVUGAME.com.