Mountaineers Fall at Top-Ranked Arizona

Saturday, January 24

Tucson, Ariz.

2 p.m.

West Virginia University

13-7,4-3Big 12

Arizona

20-0,7-0Big 12

West Virginia

Arizona

Photo by: WVU Athletic Communications

January 24, 2026 04:13 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

By: John Antonik

Top-ranked Arizona rolled to an 88-53 victory over West Virginia at sold-out McKale Center in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday afternoon.

The Wildcats led throughout in improving to 20-0 overall and 7-0 in Big 12 play.

"To come into an environment like this, against a team like this, you're going to have to get some really special performances from key people, and those same key people have given us special performances throughout this year, but they just didn't have it (today)," West Virginia coach Ross Hodge said. "That's what it takes to come into these type of deals and win."

Freshman guard Brayden Burries scored 22 points on 7 of 12 shooting, including 4 of 8 from 3-point range, and fellow freshman Koe Peat contributed 17 points and seven boards.

Other key contributors for Arizona were Anthony Dell'Orso with 12 points and Motiejus Krivas added 11 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.

Arizona shot an impressive 52.5% overall from the floor and made 10 of its 23 3-point tries with six different players connecting on at least one.

The Wildcats led 43-23 at halftime. In the second half, Arizona State outscored West Virginia 45-30.

West Virginia, which drops to 13-7 overall and 4-3 in Big 12 play, had good looks all day but couldn't get them to go down on the back end of its two-game Western road trip.

The Mountaineers misfired on 42 of its 64 field goal attempts, including just 6 of 22 from 3-point distance.

"Arizona had a lot to do with (the missed shots) on some of them," Hodge admitted. "Their collective size and physicality around the basket negates pretty much your interior attack. It's hard to get the ball close to the basket and when you do, you've got to be able to finish through contact."

Chance Moore came off the bench to lead the Mountaineers with 12 points, while Treysen Eaglestaff and Honor Huff scored 10 points each.

Huff was just 4 of 15 overall and 2 of 9 from 3-point range.

Freshman guard Amir Jenkins grabbed a team-best eight rebounds.

WVU returns to the Coliseum for a pair of conference games next week on Tuesday night against Kansas State and then Baylor on Saturday.

Heading into today's action, K-State is 10-9 overall and 1-5 in league play, while the Bears are 11-7 overall and also 1-5 in conference action.

Kansas State plays rival Kansas and Baylor faces rival TCU later today.

Four of West Virginia's first seven conference games have been against top 25-ranked teams and three in the top 10. Of the remaining 11, only two are currently in the top 25.