Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Makai Mason's season-high 29 points led Baylor to an 85-73 victory over West Virginia here at the WVU Coliseum on Monday night.
 
The Yale graduate transfer made 10-of-16 field goals and handed out four assists to help the streaking Bears to their third straight conference victory.

"He was really good when we let him play at his pace," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said.
 
West Virginia, hoping to capitalize on its first Big 12 win two days ago against Kansas, couldn't match the same effort and intensity it put forth against the Jayhawks on Saturday.
 
Baylor (12-6, 4-2) out-rebounded West Virginia 45-35 and at one point in the game had nearly as many offensive rebounds (eight) as the Mountaineers had total rebounds (nine).

"It seemed like they were way more athletic than we were and it seemed like they were way more physical than we were," Huggins said. "That may not be the case; I'm just telling you what it looked like to me. It looked like they were quicker to the ball and they did a better job creating space than we did."
 
The Bears took control of the game midway through the first half by going on an 11-3 run to build a 12-point lead. They eventually got it to 17 on a couple of Devonte Bandoo 3s.
 
Baylor's biggest lead was 21 with 15:54 remaining in the game.
 
"I went in at halftime and I said 'I don't have any idea what to do other than we're going to press the way we used to press because if you don't really play hard you stand out like a sore thumb,'"  Huggins said. "We don't make rotations in the half-court and when you don't do it in the full-court you really stand out."
 
West Virginia (9-10, 1-6) used full-court pressure to force 16 second half turnovers and get its deficit down to eight on a Bolden 3 from the top of the key with 3:33 remaining. 
 
But Baylor immediately answered Bolden's 3 with Mario Kegler's driving layup.
 
Bolden, who finished with a team-high 22 points, fouled out with 2:44 left leaving the Mountaineers without their most reliable scorer to cut deeper into Baylor's lead.
 
Freshman Brandon Knapper came off the bench to add a season-high 15 on six-of-12 shooting. He was the only other WVU player to reach double figures.
 
West Virginia's starting five consisting of Jermaine Haley, Andrew Gordon, Chase Harler, Lamont West and Esa Ahmad combined to score just 21 points.
 
Freshman Derek Culver got into early foul trouble and endured his toughest night as a Mountaineer, finishing with 3 points on one-of-eight shooting.
 
Huggins used 13 different players looking for a spark from someone other than Bolden.
 
In addition to Mason's 29, Kegler contributed a season-high 18 and Bandoo finished with 13.
 
Baylor shot 50 percent from the floor for the game and made 15-of-17 at the free throw line in the second half after missing 10 of its first 14.
 
West Virginia also struggled at the line by missing 13 of its 34 free throw tries while also missing a staggering 16 layups.
 
"I don't understand how we can continually miss the shots that we miss," Huggins said. "We were 10-for-26 in layups - shots around the rim. Ten-for-26.

"We got pretty good shots."
 
The win tonight for Baylor snapped its three-game losing streak to West Virginia and also its three-game losing streak versus the Mountaineers at the Coliseum.
 
West Virginia steps outside of Big 12 play one final time during the regular season to face No. 1-ranked Tennessee Saturday in Knoxville in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
 
It will be the Mountaineers' ninth meeting against the nation's top-ranked basketball team in school history.
 
The game will tip at 4 p.m. and will be televised nationally on ESPN.