Wake Forest’s Harris Too Much For West Virginia in Capital City on Saturday Night

Saturday, December 6

Charleston, W.Va.

6 p.m.

West Virginia University

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Wake Forest

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Wake Forest

West Virginia

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Wake Forest’s Harris Too Much For West Virginia in Capital City on Saturday Night

December 06, 2025 08:43 PM | Men's Basketball

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By: John Antonik

Wake Forest used 28 points from Juke Harris to defeat West Virginia 75-66 Saturday night in the GoMart Holiday Hoopsfest at the Charleston Coliseum.

The Demon Deacons shot 50.9% from the floor, connecting on 29 of their 57 field goal attempts, while cashing in on the Mountaineers' 17 turnovers which resulted in 25 points.

"Coming into the game, we knew a big thing for them was points off turnovers and their second-chance points, and if you add that up that was 35 points in a game that we didn't shoot the ball well enough," West Virginia coach Ross Hodge said. "But you could overcome (the poor shooting) if we could have taken better care of the ball."

Wake made 10 of 25 from 3-point distance while WVU connected on only six of its 27 triples, five of those coming from guard Honor Huff, who finished with a team-high 24.

Seventeen of Huff's 20 field goal attempts came from behind the arc, including several contested ones.

Wake Forest led by 12 with 5:45 left in the first half before West Virginia went on a 19-7 run to close out the half to tie the game at 34 at intermission. Huff keyed the spurt with three triples and 12 points.

The Demon Deacons again built their lead to 12 points seven minutes into the second half and kept it around there until Huff strung together a couple of threes sandwiched between a Chance Moore free throw to reduce Wake's lead to 61-56 with 5:30 left.

Harris missed a 3, but Nate Calmese grabbed the rebound and scored. At the other end, Amir Jenkins missed on open 3 from the wing and Tre'Von Spillers turned the missed into a dunk at the other end, pushing the lead back to nine.

The lead got back to 11 on Wake's next possession, following Moore's missed a 3, when Spillers got another close one.

A Harris 3 pushed the lead back to 12 with 1:52 left and his final one with 26 seconds remaining was the dagger.

"I was disappointed that we weren't able to locate Juke Harris a couple times," Hodge said. "Obviously, we didn't execute what we were supposed to be doing and to his credit, when we did, he still made some tough plays."
Spillers contributed 16 for Wake Forest, which improves to 7-3.

Moore was the only complementary scoring threat for West Virginia with 16 coming off the bench. The rest of WVU's starters scored 13 points on a combined 4 of 11 shooting.

Overall, West Virginia (7-3) shot 40.4%, hitting on 21 of its 52 field-goal tries and remained in the game as a result of its 20 offensive rebounds, the most by a Mountaineer team in nearly four years. WVU had a 38 to 26 edge on the glass.

The free throw line was also helpful to WVU, which made 18 of 24 compared to just 7 of 11 for Wake Forest.

An announced crowd of 10,221 attended tonight's game.

"I appreciate everyone that came out tonight. It was an incredible environment," Hodge said. "They tried their absolute hardest to will us to victory, and we just didn't match the effort and the intensity from the crowd tonight."

West Virginia returns to Hope Coliseum on Tuesday night to face Little Rock at 7 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN+.