Shanna Rose | WV Sports Chat
STILLWATER, Okla. — Kanye Clary scored 17 points and Oklahoma State opened overtime with a decisive 7-0 run to defeat West Virginia 91-84 on Tuesday night, snapping a five-game losing streak at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
The Cowboys outscored the Mountaineers 14-7 in the extra period and never relinquished control after Anthony Roy converted a three-point play to start overtime. Parsa Fallah added a free throw and Jaylen Curry buried a 3-pointer to give Oklahoma State an 84-77 lead with 1:55 remaining. WVU pulled within five twice in the final 33 seconds but got no closer.
The Mountaineers (16-12, 7-8 Big 12) rallied from a 14-point second-half deficit and led twice in the final 10 minutes of regulation, at 59-57 with 9:26 remaining and 72-71 with 4:22 to play. But Fallah and Clary answered with back-to-back 3-pointers to put the Cowboys back in front, 77-72, with 3:06 left.
“To their credit, they jumped up and made some bombs, they really did,” WVU head coach Ross Hodge said of Oklahoma State’s late 3-point shooting.
Chance Moore fueled the Mountaineers’ late push, scoring five straight points, including the tying basket with 19 seconds left to knot the game at 77. After a timeout, WVU used two fouls to give and forced Clary into a long 3-point attempt at the buzzer that missed, sending the game to overtime.
In the extra session, the Mountaineers missed four of six point-blank attempts, and the Cowboys capitalized.
“We were able to get it into overtime and felt really good about that, but they were able to execute down the stretch better than we did,” Hodge said. “They got the ball where they wanted and were able to convert it. We got the ball to some places that we wanted to get it to and didn’t convert it.”
Fallah led Oklahoma State with 18 points and eight rebounds. Clary added 17 points, Curry had 15 and Andrija Vukovic finished with 12. Roy and Christian Coleman each scored 10 for the Cowboys (17-11, 5-10), which held a 40-33 rebounding edge and converted 19 of 27 free throws. WVU was 6 of 12 from the line.
“I thought the first half was probably as poor a first half defensively as we’ve played, if you just look at the numbers,” Hodge said. “They are a good offensive team; they play with a lot of pace and a lot of confidence, and I just felt like we allowed them to establish a little too much of a rhythm and didn’t make them miss.
“I thought Jasper (Floyd’s) foul trouble in the first half really hurt us, and our point-of-attack defense just wasn’t good enough,” Hodge added. “We gave up penetration after penetration, and it was just too easy.”
Oklahoma State closed the first half on a 9-0 run to take a 46-33 lead and pushed the margin to 49-35 early in the second on a pair of Vukovic free throws. The Mountaineers responded with a 10-0 run to grab its first lead, 56-55, with 10:48 remaining.
Honor Huff led WVU with 20 points, hitting six 3-pointers. Treysen Eaglestaff added 18, Moore had 14 points and a game-high 10 rebounds, and Brenen Lorient scored 12.
The Cowboys’ victory was tempered late when Fallah punctuated the win with a dunk in the final seconds but landed awkwardly on his left knee and had to be helped off the floor.
The Mountaineers return home to face No. 19 BYU on Saturday.
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