By james art 
When West Virginia left Cincinnati 16 days ago with a 63-50 win, this allowed the mountaineers to end their longest losing series this season in three games, while providing a third victory on the BIG 12 PLAY road.
Meanwhile, Bearcats, ranked in the top 15 at national level at one point this season, had lost their fourth right to fall to 2-8 in the League.
Since then, the mountaineers (15-10, 6-8) have won only once in four attempts, while Bearcats (15-10, 5-9) have fled from three consecutive victories before losing in Ayova over the weekend.
In this way, the two teams enter a rematch on Wednesday at 7 pm in the WVU Colosseum with a little on the path of separation, and West Virginia again needs a victory as he is looking for the season.
“They play very well,” said Western Virginia chief coach Darian Devris, “and they feel that they have been in the last four games.”
The second meeting this month between UC and WVU will broadcast on ESPN2 and comes at a time when it ahead of every action on Tuesday, the mountaineers had a net ranking of 44, and Bearcats directly followed 45.
Western Virginia has dropped two directly with a total of seven points, with the loss of the home from BYU and the Saturday Overtime Road at Baylor marks two closest damage to the mountaineers this season.
As the triumph against Bearcats, the lonely victory of the mountaineers came on February 8 at home against Utah. WVU dropped six out of eight in the last month. Starting with the victory in Cincinnati, the West Virginia has surpassed 44 points (80-36) at free throws in her last five games, while trying 39 less free throws (58) of her opponents (97).
More recently, in the Saturday loss of 74-71 overtime work from bears, the mountaineers were 11 for 17 at free throws, while BU made 27 of 32 attempts, including 9 of 12 in sequels for their entire points.
“There are certainly some of those fouls that are under our control that we need to do better work,” Devris said. “Many of this is that we are in a good position, you beat your man and now you do not reach the end of that. Not many, and several of them. When you talk about two, three, four of them on the game and have done a nice job, just finish it with some discipline at the end. These are the four, six, eight free throws that we can remove and those are the ones we are concerned about. “
Accidentally enough, the latter in the Cincinnati in the large 12 in the free throws of 245 for the season, while binding Kansas for the least attempts in the League of 369. The climbers of 278 for 382 in the season are 14th in 16-teams large 12 and in the two free throws and experience of experience.
Outside the leading goalkeeper Javon Small, which is 123 out of 140 in free throws, no climber has made more than 35 or has tried more than 50.
“Getting to the rim is a big part of it. What your team can do to try to get better there, “Devris said. “You are trying to play on the strengths of your team, who can do this and what type of spots we can put them to get to the rim and succeed. Javon gets there a lot and he has to continue to attack. There are opportunities there and these calls can be made at times. He is someone who paints a lot of gravity, so if he comes in there and has contact, he will be rewarded at some point. “
Small had one of her best out of this season in the first UC match when he finished with 19 points, nine assists and two thefts.
Just as he did on the first Sunday in February, Small will surely attract the bigger part of the attention from Bearcat’s defense.
“They did several different things,” Devris recalled. “At the beginning of the game, they were the appearance of the hooking the screens of the ball, and then they went a little almost capture from the ice and were more aggressive and made a little switch, especially when Amani [Hansberry] It was in the game. They somehow threw us a little of everything. “
Little enters the best goal scorer on the big 12 with 18.6 points per game, and for the first time against Cincinnati, he was not the only guard of the mountain to present excellent display. Joseph Jesuf, who scored 16 points when shooting 6 for 6 with four triphoners, was also a major in the result.
UC Jizzle James guard, the best goal scorer of the team at 12.2 points, was unsuccessful in shooting 0-for-8 at the first meeting with the mountaineers. James has had 89 points in four games since then, including 74 in his last three. He has made 33-from-52 attempts at the goal and 13 to 23 threes after forgetting display against WVU.
“Going back and looking at the tape, they also missed some pretty good security options and I don’t want to rely on it again. We also took a lot of really firm photos this game. Javon had one of those nights in which he struck presents, and Joe hit 27 feet as the shot clock descended, “Devris said. “There were many points where I don’t know if we could take them again and I think they would do them again. The way the game plays out is great. It’s great, but I don’t know we’re in game 2, we can rely on it again.
“We have to make sure that we make the right adjustments that we need to defend when James plays as it is now. This will be a large part of it. Offensively, how can we get a better look, not just relying on this type of photos throughout the game? “
UC has two other goalscorers with a double figure in 6-legged-8 Swingman Simas Lukosius (11.4) and 6-8 ahead Dylan Mitchell (10.0), while Dan Skilings Jr. (9.6), Day Thomas (8.4) and Aziz Bandaogo ( 8.1) Give the team six players on average at least eight points.
In its three most recent victories, UC scored 93, 84 and 85 and succeeded in 70 points in the loss of the cyclones on Saturday.
This is in complete contrast to the Bearcats version, which scored 52 or less points with four large 12 losses.
“Most of it is James. He plays at a high level, “Devris said. “He has been an average of 22 per game in his last four. This is a big difference for them and now everyone else is being released a little. He makes hard – back from 15, give way to three, reaching the rim and just puts a lot of pressure on you to try and slow it down. “