Seydou Traore scored 17 points and grabbed six rebounds and Utah held off West Virginia's desperate rally beating the Mountaineers 61-56.

The Mountaineers will be unlikely to climb off the bubble after a loss to the Utes.

In the hundreds of thousands of acres that have burned in southern Kansas, people have lost pasture and cropland, cattle, and in some cases even their homes.

High fire danger continued Wednesday across western Kansas after several towns were evacuated Tuesday due to fast-moving wildfires.