West Virginia’s 24 victories heading into this year’s Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship are the most since the Final Four season in 2010, when WVU had 24 wins heading into the Big East tournament that year, and it matches the 24 regular season triumphs the Mountaineers put in the books heading into the 1989 Atlantic 10 tournament in Philadelphia.
WVU’s No. 2 seeding in this year’s Big 12 tournament is also its highest in a conference tournament since taking a No. 1 seeding into the Palestra for the 1989 A-10 tourney. That year, the 15th-ranked Mountaineers knocked off St.