Honor Huff's 38 Points Power West Virginia Past Oklahoma for CBC Title

Down six points in overtime with Oklahoma sensing an upset, West Virginia needed its best player to be exactly that. Honor Huff delivered something far greater.

The senior guard scored a career-high 38 points, broke a 19-year program record for three-pointers in a season, and fueled a breathtaking 13-0 overtime run to lift the Mountaineers past Oklahoma 89-82 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, giving West Virginia its first postseason tournament title since the 2007 NIT and crowning Huff the College Basketball Crown's Most Valuable Player.

The win did not come easily. West Virginia trailed by as many as 13 points in the second half before clawing back. After Huff and Oklahoma's Nijel Pack exchanged late threes and Tae Davis answered with a tying layup at 76, the game went to overtime. The Sooners seized the moment early, opening the extra period with six unanswered points, including a Pack layup that pushed the lead to 82-76 and appeared to swing momentum decisively toward Norman.

What followed was one of the more remarkable closings in recent postseason memory. Jasper Floyd, who had missed his first eight shots of the game, buried back-to-back three-pointers sandwiched around a Huff triple during a 9-0 burst that gave West Virginia an 85-82 edge with 2:14 remaining. Huff then drained four consecutive free throws to seal it. Oklahoma made just 2 of 8 field goal attempts in overtime and never scored again.

Huff's final line read like a different kind of record book: 9-of-19 from the field, 8-of-15 from beyond the arc, and a perfect 12-of-12 from the free throw line, with four assists. His eight three-pointers gave him 120 made threes on the season, surpassing the 117 set by Frank Young during WVU's 2007 NIT championship run. The parallel was not lost on anyone: Young set the original mark during the program's last postseason title run; Huff broke it during this one.

The supporting cast held up its end. Chance Moore came off the bench to post 19 points on 7-of-8 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds, while Brenen Lorient contributed 15 points and eight boards. For Oklahoma, Pack finished with 24 points and seven assists, and Davis added 19, but the Sooners were undone by turnovers: West Virginia converted 26 points off OU mistakes compared to just 11 the other direction.

West Virginia finished 21-14, its first 20-win season since 2020. First-year head coach Ross Hodge became just the fourth coach in program history to win 20 or more games in his debut season, joining Bob Huggins, George King, and Lee Patton. The milestone is especially notable given that WVU cycled through four different head coaches in the four seasons before Hodge arrived.

The victory also carried financial weight: WVU's players will share $300,000 from the CBC's $500,000 NIL prize pool, with the championship televised on FOX and called by Gus Johnson and analyst Jim Jackson.

For a program navigating a years-long rebuild, Sunday in Las Vegas offered something beyond a trophy. Huff's 38-point masterpiece, built on a record-setting season and capped by a comeback that should not have been possible, gave West Virginia a finish worth remembering for another 19 years.