Post Gazette · Jan 21, 2018
District roundup: West Virginia's second-half run overwhelms Texas
Jevon Carter scored 22 points and led a second-half burst that propelled the sixth-ranked Mountaineers (16-3, 5-2) to a 86-51 Big 12 Conference victory against Texas (12-7, 3-4).
West Virginia broke a two-game losing streak in part by switching to a matchup- zone defense to clog the scoring lane. The host Mountaineers also kept from getting careless on offense.
“That’s what we’ve been talking about all week,” Carter said. “We knew no matter what, we had to come out and play as hard as we can” in the second half.
West Virginia made 65.5 percent (19 of 29) of its field goals after halftime, the first time in four games the Mountaineers shot better than 50 percent in a half.