West Virginia completed a regular-season sweep of Trae Young and Oklahoma with a 75-73 win Monday night in Norman.
West Virginia holds Trae Young to one assist in 75-73 win over Oklahoma
The nation’s leader in points and assists had a solid scoring night, but couldn’t get the rest of his team going.
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Despite playing with an undisclosed illness, Young scored a game-high 32 points. The front-runner for National Player of the Year shot 10 of 20 from the field and 4 of 10 from beyond the arc.
The scoring output came against elite defender Jevon Carter and a West Virginia squad that frustrated Young for 40 minutes in an 89-76 Mountaineer victory over OU back on Jan. 6.
While Young scored above his season average of 29.7 ppg, the nation’s leader in both points and assists (9.7 apg) fell woefully short of his average when it comes to the second part of that equation. Young didn’t record his first assist Monday night until he found Khadeem Lattin for a dunk with 1:28 to play. He would finish the evening with that lone assist to his name.
The win was the second straight for a West Virginia team that entered its Saturday game against Kansas State having lost five of its last six. As a result, the Mountaineers had fallen from the second-ranked team in the country all the way down to No. 19. The victory over the 17th-ranked Sooners was also WVU’s first road win over a ranked opponent this season.
West Virginia (18-6, 7-4) now sits just a half game behind co-leaders Kansas and Texas Tech in the Big 12 standings. The loss dropped Oklahoma to 16-7 overall and 6-5 in league play.
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