Box Score MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – TCU scored on 58% of its offensive possessions tonight to deposit West Virginia 93-81 on Senior Night at the WVU Coliseum.
 
Beforehand, the Mountaineers recognized their six seniors, Akok Akok, RaeQuan Battle, Jesse Edwards, Kerr Kriisa, Quinn Slazinski and Pat Suemnick, but it was the Horned Frogs doing the celebrating. TCU won for the first time ever at the Coliseum in its 12^th appearance on the basis of some impressive offensive efficiency.
 
"We just couldn't get stops," West Virginia coach Josh Eilert said. "Credit to them, they made open shots."
 
The Frogs began with a Jameer Nelson Jr. 3, built an early 15-4 lead and never trailed in a game that saw both teams shoot better than 50% from the floor.
 
The Mountaineers (9-21, 4-13) actually out-shot TCU 56.9% to 55.6% from the floor, but couldn't cash in at the free throw line, specifically Edwards, who missed 12 of his 18 attempts.
 
Otherwise, the senior was unstoppable. He made 15 of 19 from the floor for a career-high 36 points, which could have easily been 40 or more if he had made more of his free throws.
 
"They couldn't stop him down low and understood the free throw situation, and he left a lot on the table there," Eilert said. "It wasn't just him. We had other guys that missed front ends of one-and-ones and consequently it's a turnover."
 
Battle, also playing his final game at the Coliseum, scored 13 while Slazinski finished with 11.
 
West Virginia also shot better than 50% in last Saturday's 11-point loss to Texas Tech and made more than half its field goal attempts in its 94-81 home defeat to Baylor.
 
TCU (20-10, 9-8) kept its NCAA Tournament aspirations alive with tonight's win. ESPN's Joe Lunardi had the Frogs as one of the last four byes entering today's action and the victory now guarantees them a .500 record in the nation's toughest basketball conference, which should be enough to get them in.
 
Forward Emanuel Miller led four double-figure scorers with 21 points on eight of 13 shooting. Nelson Jr. contributed 17, Micah Peavy tallied 16 and Chuck O'Bannon came off the bench to chip in with 11.
 
TCU's largest lead was 23 points with 5:29 left in the first half and it led 53-38 at halftime.
 
"We just didn't have that pop at the beginning of the game getting ourselves in a 23-point hole," Eilert said.
 
In the second half, West Virginia could never get the deficit below double digits because it simply couldn't get enough defensive stops. It's the fourth time in the last eight games the Mountaineers have surrendered at least 90 points and tonight's 93 is the second highest total given up this season.
 
Mountaineer opponents are now averaging 75.9 points per game – the most since the 2019 squad surrendered 77.4 points per game on the way to a school-record 21 loss season.
 
This year's team matched that loss total tonight in front of a weeknight crowd of 9,674.
 
"Our defense has been an issue all year long and I feel like people shoot the ball really well against us and I don't think it's a coincidence," Eilert said.
 
West Virginia concludes the regular season on Saturday at Cincinnati. Then, it will play one of the two early games in the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City on Tuesday.