By james art 
The Mountains of West Virginia (16-11, 7-9) host TCU Horned Frogs (15-12, 8-8) for the 27th meeting between two programs.
Western Virginia series history vs. TCU
Western Virginia leads 18-8
Last Meeting: TCU 65, WVU 60 (February 5, 2025 in Fort Worth)
When: Tuesday, February 24
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia, Wvu Coliseum (14,000)
Advice: 9:00 pm
TV: Cbssn
Dictator: Jordan Kent, Mike O’Donnell and AJ Ross
Radio: Tony Karidi (PBP), Brad How (Analyzer) Mountaineer Sports Net
Sirius XM: 391
WVU game notes
– Javon Small was listed on the final 20 for the John R. Wooden Watch List in the middle of the season, the final 10 for the Bob Cours Point Guard of the Year Award, the Naismith Trophy Size List and the OSCar List Trophy midseason.
– Javon Small was named a second team in the mid -americ season by Sporting News and The Athletic.
– Darian Devris was appointed recipient of the honor of the Jim Fellan Award “The middle of the season”, presented annually to the chief coach at the Basketball of the College of Division I.
– In 16 conference games this season, opponents made 56 freer throws than mountaineers.
-WVU is 620-191 (.767) for all time in WVU Coliseum and 261-77 in Wvu Coliseum in the last 21 seasons.
– The climbers have won 116 of their last 179 WVU Coliseum conference games.
– WVU has been 274-105 in their last 379 games against unbridled teams, including 155 winners of their last 190 in Wvu Coliseum.
– Darian Devris is 6-8 against the ranked teams during his career as a head coach. He is 4-3 in WVU with wins over # 2 Iowa, No. 3 Gonzaga, in No. 7 Kansas and No. 24 Arizona.
– In the four ranked WVU victories this season, Javon Small has an average of 21.3 points, 7.0 rebounds, 5.3 assists, while making 28 of its 32 free throw attempts.
– WVU beat two top 10 home teams this season, celebrating the first time that happened in the same season of 2005-06.
-The Top 10 WVU wins the most in a season in school history, along with the 2016-17 and 2005-06 teams.
– WVU stormed the ranking on January 6th at No. 21 in the AP poll. He noted the first appearance of WVU in the AP poll of 26 December 2022. The climbers have been ranked in at least one poll in 16 of the last 20 seasons.
-Darian Devris, who led Drake for up to six consecutive 20 seasons and has a career .716 Profit as a chief coach, was named the 23rd chief men’s basketball coach at the University of West Virginia on March 24, 2024.
-Devries has a record of 166-66 (.716) for seven seasons as the main coach, including the marking of 71-26 (.732) in recent seasons with two plus.
– Western Virginia is currently ranked No. 48 in the latest NCAA NET charts with No. 13 Graphics force.
-WVU is ranked No. 51 in Kenpom’s latest charts, including 16 defensive efficiency.
– Javon Small is ranked eighth in the Kenpom Player of the Year standings.
-In the latest NCAA statistics, WVU ranks 31st in the protection of the target of Fi ELD (40.6), 22nd Defense (64.5) and 12th in 3-point percentage (29,4 ).
– Javon Small was named Big 12 Player of the Week and the national player of the Oscar Robertson Week on January 20.
– Javon Small was named Big 12 Player of the Week, Ncaa March Madness Player of the Week and the national player of the week Naismith Trophy for January 6th.
-Javon Small was declared a ratio of 12 player a week, and Tucker Devries was identified as the big 12 newcomer of the week of December 2. Both were listed in the All-Tournament Battle 4 Atlantis team.
– Small was announced as Oscar Robertson’s national player at the week of December 3.
-WVU is 108-123 in the Big 12 regular matches for the season since he joined the League in 2012-13.
– West Virginia returned only 2.8 percent of her grade from the team from last season (ofri Naveh).
– For this season Tucker Devries (Drake), Javon Small (Oklahoma State), Eduardo Andre (Fresno State), Joseph Jesufo (Washington State), Sichir Harris (Illinois), Amani Hansbury (Illinois) and Jaidon (Illinois) added from the transfer portal.
– Entering this season, they combined to play 806 games, made 442 starts, scored 7 606 points, grabbed 3 304 fights and threw away 1.248 assists.
-Darian devries is 73-2 when scoring 80 or more points in a game and 141-18 when he inserts 70 or more.
-Darian devries is 120-24 when it holds opponents up to 69 points or less and 58-6 when it holds opponents to 59 points or less.
– West Virginia was estimated at 13th in the pre -season poll of Big 12 by the league’s head coaches.
– West Virginia has scored at least one goal of 3 points in 891 consecutive games.
– The climbers have won 157 of their last 178 games when they hold opponents at 69 points or less.
– WVU has won 168 of its last 192 and 224 of its last 255 games when it holds opponents to less than 69 points.
-Darian Devris is 129-17 as the main coach when he leads to halftime, including 14-3 brands in WVU.
-Darian Devris is 76-3 as the main coach when he shoots 50% or better than the pitch.
-The West Virginia is 19-11 for all time in games played on February 25th.