No. 21 Oklahoma is doing some crazy things at the Lloyd Noble Center this season. There was the NCAA-record 39-0 run against Weber State earlier in the schedule and the fewest points allowed in a conference game last week. The key players are markedly better at home, and the Sooners score and shoot better to have but one loss in 10 games on their floor.

It’s one of the many tough home courts in the Big 12, but West Virginia happens to be the nation’s most-prolific road/neutral team. More importantly, the Mountaineers believe they’re the reason why because they go to a place where the home team wants to feel comfortable and do everything they can to prevent that.

“At home, guys usually tend to look for calls in their favor or expect to get easy looks, and they want to let the game come to them,” WVU freshman guard Daxter Miles said. “We know our energy level has to be crazier to get them rattled and make them turn it over. That’s when the pressure really comes in and they realize they’ve got to protect their home court.”

WVU and No. 3 Virginia have 10 wins away from home. WVU is 4-1 on the road and 6-0 in neutral-court games. The rest of the Big 12 is 35-45, as good a reason as any the Mountaineers (18-3, 6-2) are 1 1-2 games out of first place in the conference standings.

The Mountaineers are determined to keep opponents from getting comfortable, especially when they’re playing at home, where the surroundings are familiar, the fans are friendly and the officials tend to be a little more favorable.

“Evidence of that was against Kansas State,” point guard Juwan Staten said of WVU’s road win last week in a building where the home team had won 20 of 22 Big 12 games and its previous six matchups with ranked opponents.

“It’s a very tough place to play. You don’t always shoot the ball well there. It’s hard to hear. It’s just a hard place to play. But the one thing that doesn’t change is our pressure. You don’t have to hear pressure. You don’t have to make shots to pressure. We pressured them, played a great defensive game, converted steals into offense and we held them off.”