Baylor Stops WVU’s Home Court Winning Streak at 16

Saturday, January 31

Morgantown, W.Va.

4 p.m.

West Virginia University

14-8,5-4Big 12

Baylor

12-9,2-7Big 12

Baylor

West Virginia

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January 31, 2026 06:58 PM | Men's Basketball

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By: John Antonik

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Baylor used some smothering defense to topple West Virginia 63-53 on Saturday afternoon at Hope Coliseum.

The Bears, just two games over .500 entering today's game, continued their mastery of West Virginia in Morgantown. Baylor under veteran coach Scott Drew has now won nine of its 13 meetings here for a .692 winning percentage - the best of any team with at least 10 appearances ever in the Coliseum.

Today, it was either stout Baylor defense or poor West Virginia shooting that doomed Mountaineers, particularly in the second half.

The Mountaineers missed 19 of its 28 field-goal tries with only Brenen Lorient providing any consistent offense with 11 of the team's 23 second-half points. Lorient was also the lone WVU player to make a 3 while Honor Huff and Treysen Eaglestaff missed all seven of their second-half attempts from behind the arc.

Overall, Huff and Eaglestaff combined to connect on just 4 of their 20 field goal attempts with Huff missing 12 of 13.

"Overall, just too inept and too inefficient on the offensive end of the floor to counter that with not being able to stop them," West Virginia coach Ross Hodge said afterward. "You can go 1 for 13 and turn the ball over a couple of times if you are going to keep stopping them, but we just didn't execute on either end of the floor (late in the game)."

Baylor wasn't much better, the Bears shooting just 35.7% in the second half, but the Bears were able to answer West Virginia scores and closed out the game on a 16-9 run.

After trailing 38-30 at halftime, the closest West Virginia could get in the second half was three points with 11:29 left on Chance Moore's layup.

"You fight back and fight back and cut it to three … the two most important stretches were the start of the game and then when had it to three and we were actually stopping them," Hodge explained. "Then, we had so many opportunities to cut it to one or tie it and had some missed shots and turned the ball over."

Obi Agbim and Cameron Carr paced Baylor with 16 points each, while Tounde Yessoufou contributed 11.

Carr pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds.

Lorient was the sole Mountaineer player to reach double figures with a game-high 19 points. He was 7 of 13 from the floor while the rest of the team was a combined 11 of 37.

"I thought every player who attempted a shot at some point got a very good look," Hodge observed. "We had a couple shots one foot from the basket and a couple pretty clean looks from 3 from the guys you want to shoot them, so I do think there was seven, eight, nine possessions where we got a good look and it just didn't go down.

"Then there were the other nine, 10 possessions as a coach where you didn't feel like you gave your team the best chance in those situations," Hodge added.

The loss was the Mountaineers first this season at the Coliseum to snap their 16-game winning streak dating back to last year – the third longest active streak in the country.

It also dropped West Virginia to 14-8 overall and 5-4 in Big 12 play.

Baylor snapped its four-game losing streak and boosted its record to 12-9 overall and 2-7 in conference play.

West Virginia goes back on the road to Cincinnati on Thursday night where Baylor fell 67-57 to the Bearcats last Wednesday night.