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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Its NCAA chances all but gone, West
Virginia showed it still has some fight left in a
lacklustre season. West Virginia built a 25-point lead
and had to withstand 41 points by freshman Andrew Wiggins
and a furious comeback by No. 8 Kansas to upset the
Jayhawks 92-86 in their Big 12 regular-season finale
Saturday. "We just had to stay composed, not get too
down, dont say, dang, theyre going to come back," said
Eron Harris, who led West Virginia with 28 points. "Youve
got to always have confidence in your team that youre
going to win." The Mountaineers (17-14, 9-9 Big 12) could
have finished with a thud like they had in losing four of
their five previous games that reduced them to playing
for a spot in the NIT. The young Mountaineers, who have
no seniors, watched Kansas tear into the deficit behind
Wiggins, who set a season high for scoring and a freshman
record for the Jayhawks before fouling out in the final
seconds. He also eight rebounds, four blocks and five
steals, to go along with 12-of-18 shooting from the
field. Ben McLemore has the Kansas single-game freshman
scoring record with 36 last season. West Virginia made
some clutch free throws in the final minute to thwart the
comeback and keep coach Bob Huggins sanity intact. "When
we get a little more experience, well handle those things
a little better," said Huggins, who earned $25,000 for
beating Kansas in the regular season, one of the bonus
clauses in a 2012 contract extension. Juwan Staten added
24 points and Devin Williams, WVUs star freshman, had a
season-high 22 points along with 13 rebounds. It marked
the first time this season that Kansas had allowed three
opposing players to score 20 points. "I thought Staten
controlled the game," Kansas coach Bill Self said.
"Harris was terrific and Williams was by far the best big
in the game. "They were terrific and then we didnt guard
at all. Weve gone through stretches this year where we
havent guarded well, but thats probably as poor as weve
been. But give them credit, they were a lot better than
us offensively than we were defensively." West Virginia
shot 53 per cent from the floor and outrebounded Kansas
37-31. Perry Ellis added 14 points for Kansas (23-8, 14-
4), which clinched its 10th straight regular-season title
a week ago and had little riding on this game. The
Jayhawks will have a first-round bye in the conference
tournament that begins Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas was without 7-foot freshman Joel Embiid, who sat
out his second straight game to rest a lower back strain.
Tarik Black, starting in Embiids place, went to the bench
with his second foul four minutes into the game. The
Mountaineers led nearly the entire game but fell apart
down the stretch. Still, West Virginia managed to beat a
ranked team for the third time in seven tries over the
past month. Kansas went more than seven minutes without a
field goal spanning the halves and found itself with its
biggest deficit of the season, 64-39, with 16:43 left in
the game after a Harris 3-pointer. But the Mountaineers
have had trouble holding double-digit leads this season,
and Kansas -- especially Wiggins -- was hardly done. West
Virginia struggled against Kansas full-court press, and
Wiggins followed Landen Lucas three-point play with four
free throws and a 3-pointer over a 47-second span to pull
Kansas within 78-68 with 6:13 remaining. Wiggins scored
14 straight points at one point for the Jayhawks. Frank
Masons 3-pointer trimmed the deficit to 85-80 with 1:24
left. But West Virginia made 7 of 8 free throws in the
final minute to hang on. Backups Lucas and Jamari Traylor
couldnt keep up with Williams, who scored 10 straight
points for the Mountaineers at one point. He had 18 in
the first half to give the Mountaineers a 50-38 halftime
lead -- the most points given up by the Jayhawks in the
first half this season. "I thought Devin played really
well," Huggins said. "(He) scored it through contact and
made open shots, which he does in practice. And then he
rebounds the ball for us. Hes the one guy who can really
go rebound it in a crowd." West Virginia had its second
sellout of the season, thanks to hundreds of Kansas fans
who made the 900-mile trek east and those especially
coming to see Wiggins, who played his high school ball on
the other side of the state at Huntington Prep. "Ive
never seen him play like that," Huggins said. "When he
makes shots hes really difficult to defend."
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