West Virginia runs away from Oklahoma State

West Virginia's Javon Small riddled his former team, collecting 24 points and 11 rebounds as the Mountaineers subdued visiting Oklahoma State 69-50 on Saturday in Morgantown, W.Va.

Jonathan Powell matched his season high with 17 points as West Virginia (11-2, 2-0 Big 12) led wire-to-wire to capture its seventh straight victory.

Small, who was the top scorer last year at Oklahoma State and leads the Big 12 in scoring (19.2 points per game) this season, scored 18 of his points in the first half to help propel the Mountaineers to a 27-point lead.

Marchelus Avery paced Oklahoma State (8-5, 0-2) with 15 points and five rebounds. Abou Ousmane added 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Cowboys.

Oklahoma State was plagued by 33.3 percent shooting from the floor and 3-of-21 marksmanship (14.3 percent) from 3-point range. The Cowboys also committed 17 turnovers and had just five assists on 18 made baskets.

West Virginia established its dominance with a 22-1 run midway through the first half. Small scored 11 points during the spree, hitting a pair of 3-pointers and adding a breakaway slam, which he set up with a steal.

Powell also hit a pair of triples in the run and Sencire Harris added another after he had missed his first 28 attempts from beyond the arc this season.

When Harris finished off the run with a free throw, it gave the Mountaineers a 32-7 lead with 6:06 left in the half.

Avery responded by scoring seven straight points for the Cowboys. But later in the half, Powell and Harris drained 3-pointers 36 seconds apart for the Mountaineers on their way to a 46-19 lead at the break.

In the second half, West Virginia pushed its lead to 28 points on four occasions before Oklahoma State made a late run, which whittled the deficit to 13 points.

The Mountaineers' third-leading scorer and top rebounder, Amani Hansberry, returned from an ankle injury, which sidelined him for West Virginia's New Year's Eve takedown of No. 7 Kansas.

Hansberry finished with six points, three rebounds and three assists, playing 13 minutes off the Mountaineers' bench.

West Virginia's second-leading scorer, Tucker DeVries, was in street clothes, missing his fifth straight game with what the team has called an upper-body injury.

--Field Level Media