No. 25 West Virginia didn’t play with its food Friday night and rolled Mercyhurst, scoring its most points this season.

The Mountaineers beat the Lakers 97-51, bouncing back nicely after two straight losses to Ohio State and Villanova over the past two weeks. WVU advances to 7-2 on the season, while Mercyhurst remains winless, 0-8 on the year.

“A little bit better from the effort,” head coach Mark Kellogg said. “All the Es. The effort, enthusiasm, emotion and those types of things. I thought we played with a little bit more of that from the beginning. Still made mistakes in that third quarter, defensively wasn’t great. We’ll be picky and still have some standards and goals that maybe we didn’t quite meet.”

The bounce-back domination was a team effort, with five players scoring double-di

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