{"id":22531,"date":"2026-03-04T01:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22531"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:14:18","slug":"west-virginia-with-quick-tuesday-night-turnaround-at-kansas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22531","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia With Quick Tuesday Night Turnaround at Kansas State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storyPageContentBody\" data-safe-html=\"true\">MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 Quick turnarounds are in store for West Virginia and Kansas State when the two meet Tuesday night inside Bramlage Coliseum.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mountaineers&#8217; postseason hopes were reinvigorated following last Saturday&#8217;s 79-71 victory over 19<sup>th<\/sup>-rated BYU at about the same time the Wildcats were losing at home to TCU, 77-68.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKansas State is presently in the same situation West Virginia was two years ago when it had interim coach Josh Eilert leading the program. The Wildcats fired Jerome Tang on Feb. 15, and Matthew Driscoll is finishing out the season before they can identify Tang&#8217;s permanent replacement.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe first game with Driscoll at the helm against Baylor resulted in an impressive 90-74 home victory, but the euphoria has since worn off with subsequent losses to Texas Tch, Colorado\u00a0and\u00a0TCU.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAgainst the Horned Frogs, the Wildcats got a combined 34 points from their two starting guards PJ Haggerty and Nate Johnson in the defeat.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nForward Khamari McGriff, who didn&#8217;t play in Kansas State&#8217;s 59-54 defeat at West Virginia earlier this year, has since returned to the lineup and gave KSU eight points and three rebounds before fouling out against the Horned Frogs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMcGriff should be able to help Taj Manning fortify the paint and keep West Virginia from scoring close to the basket as it did in the first meeting in Morgantown when it made 11 of its 13 shot attempts near the rim.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnother big piece that&#8217;s been missing for Kansas State is 6-foot-7 wing shooter Abdi Bashir Jr., who has been sidelined for more than a month with a stress fracture in his foot. His injury was originally listed as a four-to-six-week recovery period, which puts the timeline for a return about now.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf he is able to return, that would give the Wildcats an additional 13.2 points per game and a 44.4% 3-point shooter on the wing.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHaggerty is averaging 23.3 points per game, which ranks third in the country behind BYU&#8217;s AJ Dybantsa (24.9 ppg.) and East Carolina&#8217;s Jordan Riley (24.0 ppg.)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWest Virginia did a tremendous job of team defense on Dybantsa\u00a0last Saturday by holding him to five points below his season average.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHaggerty got 16 against West Virginia the first time these two teams played in Morgantown back on Jan. 27, a 59-54 Mountaineer victory. West Virginia outscored Kansas State 14-5 over the final 4:30 to overcome a 49-45 deficit.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs of this morning, the 17-12 Mountaineers are 58<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the NCAA NET rankings and are hunting for wins to get themselves back into the NCAA Tournament bubble conversation.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOf the eight teams listed just outside of ESPN.com&#8217;s tournament cut line, Ohio State&#8217;s 34 NET ranking is the best. The other seven teams rank between 42nd and 64th, which puts the Mountaineers within range.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTherefore, getting a win at 11-18 overall Kansas State on Tuesday night is a must.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe contest will tip off at 8 p.m. EST and will be televised on ESPN+ (Ben Boyle, Stan Weber, Sophie Smith and Hannah Whetstone.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMountaineer Sports Network radio coverage with <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/staff-directory\/tony-caridi\/1712\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"1712\">Tony Caridi<\/a><\/dfn>, <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/staff-directory\/brad-howe\/3373\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3373\">Brad Howe<\/a><\/dfn> and studio host David Kahn will get things started at 7 p.m. on stations throughout West Virginia, online via WVUsports.com and the Varsity Network and WVU Gameday apps.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollowing Tuesday night&#8217;s game, the Mountaineers will wrap up their regular season on Friday night against UCF at Hope Coliseum.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/news\/2026\/3\/2\/mens-basketball-west-virginia-with-quick-tuesday-night-turnaround-at-kansas-state\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORGANTOWN, W.Va. \u2013 Quick turnarounds are in store for West Virginia and Kansas State when the two meet Tuesday night inside Bramlage Coliseum. \u00a0 The Mountaineers&#8217; postseason hopes were reinvigorated following last Saturday&#8217;s 79-71 victory over 19th-rated BYU at about the same time the Wildcats were losing at home to TCU, 77-68. \u00a0 Kansas State &#8230; <a title=\"West Virginia With Quick Tuesday Night Turnaround at Kansas State\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=22531\" aria-label=\"Read more about West Virginia With Quick Tuesday Night Turnaround at Kansas State\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/West-Virginia-With-Quick-Tuesday-Night-Turnaround-at-Kansas-State.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22533,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions\/22533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}