WVU Women’s Basketball
No Movement for WVU Women in Top 25 Poll
WVU women’s basketball made no moves in Monday’s Ap Top 25 poll, despite notching a pair of dominant victories over conference opponents last week. The Mountaineers (19-4, 9-3 Big 12) stayed at No. 18 in this week’s poll.
WVU won its games by an average of 30.5 points last week, beating Kansas 76-43 on Wednesday and dispatching Houston 79-51 Saturday.
The Mountaineers began the game against Kansas on an 18-0 run — the first eight of those points scored by Sydney Shaw, who dropped a game-high and new career-high 22 — not allowing a Jayhawks basket for the first 9:24 of the first period. West Virginia’s defense smothered Kansas from the outset, forcing 13 turnovers in the first ten minutes and 29 on the day.
At Houston, WVU began the game on a massive run for the second contest in a row, scoring 20 points before the Cougars broke the ice with barely a minute to go in the first quarter.
Neither team could buy a bucket to start, star shooting guard JJ Quinerly’s layup with 5:37 to play in the first period gave West Virginia a 4-0 lead. From that point Quinerly went nuclear, scoring 16 points before the buzzer sounded and putting the Mountaineers ahead 25-4 after ten minutes. Quinerly finished with 20 points, four rebounds, six assists and three steals. Jordan Harrison, Kyah Watson and Shaw all scored double figures, while the Mountaineers got 55 minutes from their bench.
Other ranked Big 12 teams are No. 11 TCU, No. 14 Kansas State, No. 20 Oklahoma State and No. 25 Baylor. Utah received votes.
The Mountaineers are currently in a tie for fourth-place in the Big 12 standings. Kansas State, TCU and Baylor are all tied for first place with at 10-2 while WVU, Oklahoma State and Utah are all tied at 9-3.
West Virginia continues to be highly ranked in the NCAA’s NET Rankings. The Mountaineers are the third-highest Big 12 team in the NET Rankings at No. 11.
WVU has a top-25 matchup against Baylor in Waco on Tuesday at 8 p.m. The Mountaineers will then return home to host Cincinnati for Senior Day Saturday at 2 p.m.
