West Virginia vs. Mount St. Mary's Preview & Game Thread

The West Virginia Mountaineers opens the season Tuesday night against the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. EST and will stream on ESPN+.

Ross Hodge is in his first season at the helm. Hodge spent the last two seasons as the head coach of the North Texas Mean Green. He compiled a 46-24 record and earned two NIT bids.

Hodge retained one Mountaineer with eligibility to return in center Abraham Oyeadier. The redshirt freshman will see the floor early in the season with the injury to senior forward Jackson Fields, opening the opportunity to earn more playing time in the future.

Seven-footer Harlan Obioha will carve space in the paint for the Mountaineers. He put in 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the exhibition against Wheeling.

Point guard Jasper Floyd and 2025 AAC Sixth Man of the Year Award winner Brenen Lorient followed Hodge to Morgantown. Lorient produced 11.7 points and 4.9 rebounds per game and Floyd averaged 9.0 points, 3.9 assists, and 1.3 steals per game.

Senior guards Trey Eaglestaff and Honor Huff are poised to lead the team in scoring. Huff led the nation in three-pointers made (131) at Tennessee at Chattanooga a year ago and in the closed scrimmage against Maryland, buried 10 threes and finished with 32 points, while Eaglestaff, who averaged 18.9 points at North Dakota last season, produced 22 points against the Terrapins.

Senior guard Chance Moore is required by the NCAA to miss the first five games of the season.

Mount St. Mary’s head coach Donny Lind, entering his second season, set the record for the most wins in a season debut with 23 last year.

Guards Xavier Lipscomb and Arlandus Keyes are the Mount’s top returning scorers from last season. Lipscomb, a graduate senior, averaged 6.8 points, 4.3 assists and 4.2 rebounds while leading the team in minutes last year. Keyes averaged 6.8 points and 3.3 rebounds last year in 32 games. The senior was a key contributor in the Mount's playoff run, averaging 12.6 points over the Mount's five postseason games.

Transfers Anastasios Rozakeas (Florida State) and Luke McEldon (Santa Clara) led the Mount in scoring in the exhibition against Hood College. Rozakeas scored a team-high 21 points and McEldon added 18 points.

West Virginia leads the all-time series against Mount St. Mary’s 6-0.

GAME THREAD:

U16 TIMEOUT: WVU leads 9-6. PG Jasper Floyd is 3-3 from the field with a three and leads all scorers with seven points.

The Mount are forced to take a timeout at midcourts, forcing the UU12 timeout. WVU and Mount St Mary's is tied at 11. WVU had gone without a field goal in the last 3:53

U8 Timeout: WVU leads 18-17. The Mountaineers are 1-6 from three.

U4 Timeout: the game is tied at 25. Floyd leads all scoreless with 9.

HALFTIME: WVU leads 35-29. Jasper Floyd has scored a game-high 15 points. He's 5-8 from the floor, including 1-1 from three. Brenen Lorient has produced seven points. Mount St. Mary's is killing WVU on the glass 25-11. The Mountaineers are 10-25 from the field, while the mount are 10-23.

U16 Timeout: WVU leads 40-33. Floyd continues to lead the offense with a bucket and DJ Thomas added a contested bucket in the paint.

U12 Timeout: Honor Huff buried a three to stretch the advantage to 12 and the senior has nine points on the night. WVU leads 47-35.

U4 Timeout: WVU 58, Mount St. Mary's 48. The Mount shrunk the Mountaineer lead to six, but a pair of free throws from Harlan Obioha and a lay-in by Floyd pushed the lead to ten.

Final: WVU 70, Mount St. Mary's 54. Jasper Floyd led all scorers with 25 points, Honor Hush finished with 16 and Brenen Lorient pitch in 11.

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