Box Score No. 25 Texas A&M used 23 points each from Tyler Davis and Admon Gilder to roll to an 88-65 victory over 11^th-ranked West Virginia in a season-opening game played tonight at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany.
 
Aggie coach Billy Kennedy began the game with starters Admon Gilder and D.J. Hogg sitting on the bench, but once he put them in Texas A&M's fortunes changed immediately.
 
A Lamont West 3 with 6:43 left in the first half had West Virginia comfortably ahead, 29-17, and seemingly in control of the game.
 
Then Hogg and Gilder took over, scoring six straight to quickly reduce West Virginia's lead to six. Five more from freshman guard T.J. Starks gave the Aggies their first lead of the game, 35-33, with 1:58 to go in the half.
 
Here, Hogg went off by scoring the final 10 points of the half for A&M to give the Aggies a 45-38 lead at intermission.
 
It only got worse for the Mountaineers in the second half as they began shooting and missing 3s, which frequently turned into transition baskets for A&M.
 
A couple of WVU misses at the start of the second half led to four straight Aggie points and a quick Mountaineer timeout, but soon another nine-point flurry got A&M's lead to 17. WVU eventually reduced it to eight on two quick 3s by James Bolden and Lamont West, but A&M answered with seven straight to build its margin back to 15.
 
Soon it swelled to 20 and then to 25 as West Virginia continued missing from the outside.
 
In all, the Mountaineers tried 40 3-pointers, hitting just 12, while Texas A&M nearly matched WVU's 3-point field goal total (10) on 21 fewer attempts.
 
West Virginia's full-court pressure defense forced 18 Texas A&M turnovers, but the Mountaineers turned it over 16 times themselves and finished the game shooting only 34 percent from the floor.
 
Texas A&M, as expected, had a sizable advantage on the glass, out-rebounding West Virginia 47-35.
 
Hogg added 19 for the Aggies, now 1-0.
 
Bolden, a sophomore backup guard, led West Virginia with a career-high 19 points; senior guard Jevon Carter scored 13 and sophomore forward Wesley Harris contributed 12.
 
Tonight's 23-point loss was West Virginia's first 20-point defeat since Feb. 14, 2015, when the Mountaineers dropped an 80-60 decision at Iowa State.
 
The Mountaineers (0-1) are scheduled to return to Morgantown tomorrow evening and will play American University at the WVU Coliseum next Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
 
That game will be televised locally on AT&T SportsNet.