WVU heads to Manhattan for their final road game of the season, still battling to stay in the NCAA Tournament conversation. How to watch, odds, and keys to the game.

Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Tipoff Time: 8:00PM ET

Location: Bramlage Coliseum — Manhattan, Kansas

Broadcast Information

Channel: ESPN+

Streaming: ESPN app (with valid ESPN+ subscription)

Announcers: Ben Boyle, Stan Weber, Sophie Smith and Hannah Whetstone

Radio: Mountaineer Sports Network (Radio Affiliates) | SiriusXM Channel 382 and Streaming Channel 982 | WVU Gameday App (Apple | Android)

Radio Announcers: Tony Caridi and Brad Howe

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Betting Odds

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Spread: WVU -1.5 (-110) / K-State +1.5 (-110)
Moneyline: WVU -125 / K-State +104
Total: O/U 142.5 (Over -115 / Under -105)

(As of 9:00AM ET/March 3, 2026)

Game Preview

WVU travels to Manhattan at 17-12, 8-8 in Big 12 play, riding the momentum from Saturday’s 79-71 win over No. 19 BYU — a game that snapped a three-game losing streak and put the Mountaineers back into the tournament conversation. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi and CBS Sports’ David Cobb have them in their Next Four Out as of Monday. That’s not “in” but it is an improvement over the previous bracketology.

Kansas State is 11-18, 2-14 in conference, playing out the rest of the season under interim head coach Matthew Driscoll following Jerome Tang’s firing on February 15th. The Wildcats won their first game under Driscoll — an impressive 90-74 home win over Baylor — but have dropped three straight since, including a 77-68 home loss to TCU on Saturday where the Wildcats turned the ball over 18 times. This is their last home game of the season.

The Game Within The Game

It starts and ends with PJ Haggerty. The junior guard is averaging 23.3 points per game — third in the country, behind only BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and East Carolina’s Jordan Riley. The Mountaineers just held Dybantsa five points below his season average on Saturday. West Virginia will look to follow a similar gameplan tonight: make everyone else beat you, don’t let Haggerty take over, stay the course when he makes his runs.

Haggerty scored 16 in the first meeting — all of them in the second half. He’s shooting nearly 50% from the floor on a two conference-win team. Everybody has a game plan for him and he’s still doing it. Jasper Floyd will likely be assigned to keeping Haggerty in check. How Floyd manages his foul situation matters as much as anything he does defensively.

There is one wildcard to watch as K-State wing Abdi Bashir Jr. has been out over a month with a stress fracture. The original recovery timeline puts him back around now. If he suits up, that’s a 44.4% three-point shooter averaging 13.2 points per game that didn’t play in the first meeting between the Mountaineers and Wildcats.

The keys to the game are pretty simple: get to the free throw line, win the rebounding battle and don’t let Haggerty take over the game. The Mountaineers are 15-4 this season when they shoot more free throws than their opponent and 2-7 when they don’t. The formula works when they run it.

Series History

West Virginia leads the all-time series 17-13, with the first meeting dating back to December 12, 1949 — a 49-44 Kansas State win in Morgantown. WVU has won seven of the last 12 meetings and is 16-12 against the Wildcats since joining the Big 12 in 2012.

The road side of this series has not been kind. WVU is 4-9 all-time at Bramlage Coliseum, with wins coming in 2021, 2018, 2016, and 2015. Bramlage is also the only Big 12 road venue WVU has played in every season since joining the conference.

The most recent meeting was January 27 in Morgantown, a 59-54 WVU win. The Mountaineers trailed 49-45 with 4:30 remaining and outscored K-State 14-5 down the stretch to close it out.

By the Numbers

Category	West Virginia	Kansas State
Record	17-12 (8-8 Big 12)	11-18 (2-4 Big 12)
Points Per Game	69.9	79.5
Points Allowed Per Game	64.7	80.9
Field Goal %	44.4%	45.9%
3PT FG %	33.3%	35.9%
Free Throw %	67.5%	70.4%
Rebounds Per Game	34.8	34.4
Assists Per Game	12.9	17.3
Turnovers Forced Per Game	11.6	12.7
Turnovers Committed Per Game	11.1	12.9
Leading Scorer	Honor Huff – 15.7 ppg	PJ Haggerty – 23.3 ppg
Leading Rebounder	Chance Moore – 5.3 rpg	PJ Haggerty — 5.3 rpg

Probable Starters

No.	Player	Position	Height	Class	Stats
1	Jasper Floyd	G	6-3	Sr.	7.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg
3	Honor Huff	G	5-10	Sr.	15.7 ppg, 2.2 rpg
52	Treysen Eaglestaff	G	6-6	Sr.	9.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg
0	Brenen Lorient	F	6-9	Sr.	11.5 ppg, 5.1 rpg
55	Harlan Obioha	C	7-0	Sr.	5.4 ppg, 4.9 rpg

Prediction

WVU is the better team. They’ve already beaten this team once and they’re playing with something to prove. Kansas State is 2-14 in conference and running out the clock on a lost season.

The Mountaineers are coming off one of their best performances of the season against a Top 25 team. The offense was clicking at 1.3 points per possession, which is a number that would lead the country if they could sustain it. They outrebounded BYU by ten. Five guys scored in double figures. This team isn’t limping into Manhattan.

The one thing that can beat West Virginia tonight is Haggerty going nuclear. Hold him to something reasonable and this game isn’t particularly close.

West Virginia 72, K-State 61

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