WVU Basketball Hits Lowest KenPom Rank in Months

WVU basketball fell to its lowest KenPom ranking in several weeks following Saturday’s 73-51 loss at Texas Tech.

The Mountaineers are ranked No. 50 in the latest KenPom update, the team’s lowest ranking since the beginning of December. West Virginia has been ranked in the 40s since before the start of Big 12 conference play.

WVU is 3-7 in its last 10 games with four games left in the regular season. The Mountaineers have fallen from a sure-fire NCAA Tournament team to a team on the bubble in desperate need of a few wins to get in.

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Fortunately for WVU, they woke up Sunday morning in the exact same position in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology than they were in prior to tip-off on Saturday.

The Mountaineers are now ranked in KenPom alongside fellow bubble teams like Memphis (No. 47), Cincinnati (No. 52), Pitt (No. 54) and Villanova (No. 56).

WVU struggled in the second half against Texas Tech on Saturday. The Red Raiders shot over 60% from the floor in the second half as TTU outscored the Mountaineers 43-24 after halftime.

WVU’s only win in its last four games was a 62-59 victory over Cincinnati last Wednesday. The Bearcats scored two three-pointers in the final eight seconds and got a wide-open shot at the buzzer as they nearly erased a nine-point lead in less than 10 seconds.

WVU basketball returns home to host TCU Tuesday at 9 p.m. The game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network.

West Virginia then takes a two-game trip out west to play BYU Saturday and Utah next Tuesday before hosting UCF in Morgantown in the regular season finale on Saturday, March 8.