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Feb 1, 2026; Boulder, Colorado, USA; Texas Christian University Horned Frogs head coach Jamie Dixon reacts in the first half against the Colorado Buffaloes at the CU Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\nDavid Punch scored seven points to spark a 17-5 run in the final 7:38 as TCU defeated West Virginia 60-54 in a Big 12 game Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n West Virginia (16-11, 7-7) led 49-43 before Punch started the rally with a free throw.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Xavier Edmonds and Liutauras Lelevicius led the Horned Frogs (17-10, 7-7) with 14 points each and Punch finished with 12.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Honor Huff led the Mountaineers with 13 points and Brenen Lorient had 10.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The Horned Frogs’ Brock Harding, who had 11 points, tied the game at 52 with a pair of layups with 3:19 left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Punch followed with back-to-back layups of his own to make it 56-52 with 1:36 left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Lorient ended a five-minute West Virginia scoring drought with a layup with seconds left, but Harding and Jayden Pierre made two free throws each to put the game away.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The Mountaineers led for most of the first half until the Horned Frogs finished on a 14-4 run to lead 30-25 at the break.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Lelevicius led the Horned Frogs with 14 points in the first half, hitting 4 of 5 shots from the floor, including 3 of 3 on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\n TCU was 4 of 7 on 3-pointers in the opening half.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Lelevicius started the run that gave the Horned Frogs the lead when Treysen Eaglestaff fouled him on a 3-point attempt.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Lelevicius hit all three of the free throws to make it 21-19 Mountaineers with 6:33 left in the half.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n After Edmonds made a free throw, Lelevicius nailed a 3-pointer to give the Horned Frogs a 23-21 lead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Harding finished a 10-0 run with a 3-pointer for a 26-21 lead with 4:29 left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Harlan Obioha stopped the run with a layup, but Edmonds followed with a dunk and a layup for a 30-23 TCU lead with 2:11 left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Huff ended a more than three-minute scoring drought for West Virginia with a layup to cut the lead to five at the break.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Eaglestaff led the Mountaineers at the break with six points on a pair of 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n West Virginia shot 40.7% from the floor, but made only 3 of 12 on 3-pointers and was 0 for 2 from the free-throw line. TCU won despite shooting just 34% from the floor and 37.5% (6 of 16) on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n –Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n