MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia closes a challenging three-game stretch against top 20 competition at 7 p.m. Wednesday when the Mountaineers welcome 10th-ranked TCU to Hope Coliseum.

WVU, No. 25 in the latest Coaches Poll and receiving the most votes of any unranked team in the Associated Press Top 25, enters off an impressive 83-70 victory Sunday at then-No. 11 Iowa State. That the result came four days after the Mountaineers fell at home against unbeaten Texas Tech, 71-66, only added to the significance of what stands as the team’s second Quad 1 victory this season at present.

“We battled on the boards and offensively, we moved the ball,” West Virginia head coach Mark Kellogg said. “Our pressure was pretty good and hopefully a little bit disruptive, so they just couldn’t find quite as much flow. Really liked the third quarter. Didn’t love the fourth. They didn’t score much. It was only free throws in that third quarter, but we finished and that’s what we hadn’t done a couple times this year. Even in games we’ve won, we didn’t necessarily finish at the level we wanted to. Good win for us and a hard place to win for sure. A quality program and a good bounce back for us.

The Mountaineers (14-3, 4-1 Big 12) scored 30 points off 25 Cyclone turnovers and got strong performances from Kierra ‘MeMe’ Wheeler and Jordan Harrison in the triumph.

Wheeler had team-high totals of 25 points and seven rebounds, while Harrison finished with 19 points, five rebounds and game-high totals of eight assists and seven steals. Harrison’s steal output was one more than the entire Iowa State squad.

Harrison has 41 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds in her last two games and has scored in double figures in seven of the last nine contests. In one of the two most recent games she didn’t score at least 10 points, Harrison dished out 10 assists.

“That stat line, in particular, was phenomenal,” Kellogg said. “She controlled the game and did a great job. She’s starting to play really well for us. She was good the other night as well. She was a little up and down early. I don’t know if that was a senior-itis type thing or what was going on, but she’s starting to find her groove and we played off of that pretty well.”

The matchup with the Horned Frogs (16-1, 4-1) features two of the four Big 12 teams with one league loss to this point. Save for an 87-77 overtime setback at Utah on January 3, TCU is unbeaten, and it put together one of its better performances this season Sunday in handling Arizona State, 77-46.

Five TCU players scored at least eight points against the Sun Devils, including 22 from the team’s top scorer, senior guard and Notre Dame transfer Olivia Miles.

Miles ranks third in the Big 12 with an average of 19.5 points.

Marta Suarez, a 6-3 senior averaging north of 17 points, was limited to four against ASU.

Mar 29, 2025; Birmingham, AL, USA; TCU Horned Frogs head coach Mark Campbell works with his team during the first half of a Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament basketball game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Legacy Arena. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images

“We’re starting to get to the point where it’s pick your poison a little bit,” TCU head coach Mark Campbell said. “For us to hang 77 and Marta only have four points is a healthy sign as a team.”

TCU ranks third among 16 Big 12 teams with 84.3 points on average and first surrendering only 52.1 points per game.

The Horned Frogs shoot 49.6 percent as a team and hold opponents to 31.2 percent field-goal shooting, including 25.5 percent from long distance. The Sun Devils were held to 29 percent shooting and managed only three triples in Fort Worth.

“Out on the perimeter, because you know you have the protection, you can really defend the three-point line,” Campbell said, “and we’ve done a really good job of that all year.”

This is the first of two regular season meetings between the teams, both of which are looking to enhance their NCAA Tournament resumes with a marquee win.

“They just had a big-time win at Iowa State, which might be the hardest place to play in our league,” Campbell said. “West Virginia is off to a great start. They do an incredible job. We have to be mentally tough and dialed in to go into Morgantown and find a way to get a win.”