TCU overwhelms West Virginia
FORT WORTH — Jameer Nelson Jr., Emanuel Miller and Trevian Tennyson all finished with 14 points and TCU breezed to an 81-65 victory over West Virginia on Monday night.
Jamie Dixon notched his 156th victory as coach of the Horned Frogs (17-7, 6-5 Big 12), moving into a second-place tie with Billy Tubbs (1994-2002) on the school's all-time list. Buster Brennan won 205 games from 1948-67.
Nelson made 5 of 8 shots with a 3-pointer for TCU. He grabbed five rebounds, blocked four shots and had three steals. Miller sank half of his 10 shots, adding four rebounds and four assists. Tennyson hit 4 of 8 attempts from 3-point range. Jakobe Coles pitched in with 11 points and five rebounds off the bench.
Raequan Battle led the Mountaineers (8-16, 3-8) with 21 points. Quinn Slazinski totaled 15 points, five rebounds and five assists.
West Virginia, which falls to 0-6 on the road this season, turned the ball over 19 times and the Horned Frogs turned them into 26 points.
Nelson had 12 points and Miller scored 10 to help TCU take a 47-35 lead into halftime. West Virginia jumped out to a 10-5 lead, but Miller had a three-point play in a 9-0 run and the Horned Frogs led the rest of the way.
Slazinski sank a 3pointer 4:30 into the second half to get West Virginia within 56-47. Miller answered with a basket and TCU led by double digits the rest of the way.
Dixon has a 156-104 record in his eighth season with TCU. Brannon went 205-259 during his tenure. Tubbs posted a 156-95 mark.
TCU visits Kansas State on Saturday. West Virginia plays host to No. 12 Baylor on Saturday.
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Mark Mitchell scored 23 points while star big man Kyle Filipowski posted his first doubledouble in nearly three weeks as the Blue Devils fought off the Demon Deacons at Durham, N.C.
Filipowski had 21 points and 10 rebounds for Duke (19-5, 10-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), which repeatedly answered pushes by Wake Forest (16-8, 8-5) that kept the Demon Deacons hanging around within two possessions or so for much of the second half. But they never could overtake the Blue Devils, who led for the final 17⁄2 1 minutes but still had a fight on their hands to the final moments.
Wake Forest was chasing its first win in Cameron Indoor Stadium since January 1997 during star big man Tim Duncan's senior season. The Demon Deacons had multiple chances to pull to within a possession in the second half, but Damari Monsanto missed a 3pointer with his team down five followed by another one after the Demon Deacons had rebounded his first miss.
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Juju Watkins scored 32 points and the Trojans used a dominant third quarter to pull away for a win at home.
The stellar freshman notched her ninth 30point game of the season, breaking the school record of eight set by Cherie Nelson in 1988-89.