Juwan Staten needed more than 33 minutes to score against the 18th-ranked team in the country … and what might normally be an ingredient for a disaster didn’t matter Tuesday night and was merely a footnote to West Virginia’s most impressive result of the season.

The Mountaineers hit all their marks — all of them … massive edges in points of turnovers, steals, bench points, you name it, plus winning numbers in shooting percentage, 3-pointers made and assists — and did it against a pretty good team. I mean, cheer WVU for that performance, but don’t doubt the Sooners. Even Bob Huggins admitted Oklahoma had a good plan and was doing work with it early in the game.

But so were the Mountaineers, who went on without their best player and stayed true through some iffy defense by doing what they do and changing nothing to tailor the game to the circumstances within it. They fashioned their inevitable Cumulative Effect, but saw it happen earlier than usual because they started to strong and with so much verve three days after a potentially problematic loss.

All 11 of the Mountaineers who played in the win had checked in during the first half of the first half, and every one of them did something to fill the box score with a basket, a steal, an assist or a rebound with 9:13 left before halftime.

“It was all clicking in some way, shape or form,” Devin Williams said. “Everyone was out there getting deflections, steals, making good passes, getting in the lane, rebounding. Something was happening for somebody. It was scary.”

The Sooners couldn’t handle WVU’s defense early. When the Mountaineers (15-2, 3-1 Big 12) led 23-13 in the first half, they had 26 shots and 10 points off Oklahoma turnovers. The Sooners had six baskets to eight turnovers and half as many shots as WVU.