{"id":33641,"date":"2025-11-14T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33641\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:16:09","slug":"west-virginia-beats-pitt-in-192nd-backyard-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33641\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia beats Pitt in 192nd Backyard Brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harlan Obioha had 19 points, Honor Huff scored 11 of his 15 points in the second half, and West Virginia beat Pittsburgh 71-49 on Thursday night in the 192nd Backyard Brawl.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia (4-0) has won seven of the last nine meetings in the series, with blowout losses the past two seasons, to take a 102-90 all-time advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Jasper Floyd had 13 points, five rebounds and seven assists for West Virginia. DJ Thomas added 10 points. Obioha made 8 of 9 shots and Huff made up for 2-of-10 shooting by making 9 of 12 free throws. <\/p>\n<p>Cameron Corhen had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Pittsburgh (3-1), and Omari Witherspoon added 11 points. The Panthers shot 37.6% from the field and attempted just six free throws. <\/p>\n<p>West Virginia led 34-25 at halftime after closing on a 15-2 run that included 13 straight points. Obioha and Thomas each had 10 points for West Virginia. Pitt missed its final eight shots of the first half. <\/p>\n<p>The Mountaineers pulled away after scoring the opening 12 points of the second half. Huff closed another 13-0 run with nine straight points, six coming at the free-throw line, to secure it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlan Obioha had 19 points, Honor Huff scored 11 of his 15 points in the second half, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5956,10150,73,75,74,726,2553,978],"class_list":["post-33641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sports","tag-university-of-pittsburgh","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}