B.J. Raymond made two three-pointers in the last 1 minute, 18 seconds of overtime last night, and the Musketeers advanced to the West Regional final with a 79-75 victory over coach Bob Huggins' Mountaineers.

Third-seeded Xavier (30-6), the Atlantic Ten regular-season champion, will seek its first Final Four appearance when it plays the winner of the UCLA-Western Kentucky game in the regional final tomorrow.

Raymond, who had made only one field goal all night, hit a three-pointer from the top of the key to put the Musketeers ahead, 75-74, with 1:18 left. He then shook loose on an inbounds play, took a crosscourt pass, and made a three with the shot clock expiring and 30 seconds to go for a 78-74 lead.

Josh Duncan led Xavier with a career-high 26 points despite foul trouble.

Joe Alexander scored 18 and had 10 rebounds for the Big East's Mountaineers (26-11).

West Virginia missed 4 of 6 free throws in overtime. Alexander missed one with 14.2 seconds left in regulation that would have given his team a 65-64 lead.

Xavier, which led by 18 early in the game, rallied from a 71-65 deficit in overtime.

Xavier shot 11 for 19 from three-point range, while West Virginia was 1 for 11. The Mountaineers had only one worse performance shooting threes this season, going 1 for 22 in a loss to Cincinnati.

Duncan was 3 of 4 shooting threes, Drew Lavender 3 of 6, and Raymond 2 of 4. Da'Sean Butler added 16 points, 14 in the second half. Alexander and Butler both fouled out in the overtime.

Xavier has been in a regional final only once, in 2004.

Despite the loss, Huggins has had quite the comeback with the school he played for.

Out of work two years ago, he barely missed taking a team to the regional final for the fourth time.

Huggins got fired at Cincinnati - a school he led to the 1992 Final Four - after a drunken-driving arrest and sat out a season before surfacing at Kansas State in 2007. He guided that team to the NIT, where it lost in the second round.

Huggins and his West Virginia team seemed right among basketball's elite in reaching the Sweet 16.

Duncan drew his fourth foul with 121/2 minutes left in regulation. He came out briefly, then returned and was on the court almost the entire rest of the game. When it was over, he grabbed the ball and hurled it in to the wildly cheering Xavier booster section.

The Musketeers built a big lead at the start, but West Virginia scored the final five points of the first half to cut it to 32-25 at intermission, then pulled even midway through the second half.

The Mountaineers took their first lead of the game at 51-50 on Butler's eight-foot bank shot with 9:41 left.

There were six lead changes and four ties the remainder of regulation.

Duncan's three-point play with 1:56 left tied it at 62, and his two free throws with 1:28 to play in the second half put Xavier up, 64-62.

Nobody could score again until Alexander's tough 15-foot bank shot with 14.2 seconds left tied it at 64. But he missed the free throw, and Lavender's 18-footer under pressure missed to send the game into overtime.

With the Mountaineers misfiring early, it looked like it might be a Xavier blowout.