West Virginia's leading scorer, Casey Mitchell, was suspended indefinitely Monday for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins didn't elaborate in a statement announcing the suspension.

Mitchell also was suspended indefinitely by Huggins in October for violating team rules, but he didn't miss any games.

Deniz Kilicli, who has started 12 games for West Virginia, prefers to come off the bench.

“Every time I start, they’re [officials] just looking at me because I’m European, because I’m 6-9, because I’m whatever,” says Kilicli.

“They always look at me and I get travel, fouls called in the first two minutes of the game, so I told [Huggins], ‘What do you think if I just come off the bench?’ And he was like, ‘If that’s how you feel comfortable, that’s completely fine with me.’ So I’m going to come off the bench probably the rest of the year.”

No. 21 West Virginia defeated South Florida 56-46 on Sunday to rebound from a tough loss to Marshall.

Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins joked that Casey Mitchell has suddenly become good at rebounding because he senses where his errant shots will end up. Mitchell got his first career double-double with 13 points and 14 rebounds in the win.

“I told (South Florida coach Stan Heath) that he misses so many that he knows where they are going,” Huggins said. “We’ve been on him to rebound the ball.

“We need him to rebound the ball at both ends. We don’t have real explosive guys in there so we need him to go to the boards.”

West Virginia forward Dan Jennings, who dressed for Sunday's game against South Florida but didn't play, walked away from the bench in the second half.

Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins said the player's exit was "unexcused, inexcusable. Never to be seen again, I guess."

Jennings averaged 2 points and 2.5 rebounds in 14 games this season, including four starts.

"I understand that you have to report it and that's fine but can we talk about the guys that play?" Huggins said. "Because he didn't play anyways and hasn't played. The truth of the matter is that he's been a nonentity. We started him to try and get some other guys motivated and he did work hard in practice for a while, but look at his career stats."

Andre Drummond, believed by many to be the top recruit from the 2012 class, is being targeted by as many as seven teams.

"Louisville, Kentucky, West Virginia, Connecticut, Pitt, North Carolina and Georgetown," St. Thomas More coach Jere Quinn said. "No one else is even talking to him.

"I don't think anybody else is coming in."

The 6-foot-10, 260-pounder is a native of Middletown, Connecticut and says he doesn't have any visits scheduled.

West Virginia defeated Purdue 68-64 on Sunday, handing the No. 8 Boilermakers their second loss of the week.

Kevin Jones scored nine of his 17 points during a late 18-6 run by West Virginia.

West Virginia (12-4) has won a season-high four straight.

"This was as much a team effort as any game we've played this year," coach Bob Huggins said.

Suspended West Virginia guard Noah Cottrill has left the school, a basketball spokesman said Friday.

Cottrill never played for West Virginia after being suspended in October by coach Bob Huggins for conduct "unbecoming of a Mountaineer."

Casey Mitchell scored 28 points to lead West Virginia 65-59 past No. 13 Georgetown on Saturday afternoon.

Mitchell's scoring average has risen from 3.7 points last season to 17.6 this season.

West Virginia forced Georgetown to turn the ball over 18 times.

West Virginia let a big second half lead slip away and had to rely on a miss to notch a narrow win over DePaul on Tuesday night.

"We just make bad decisions," coach Bob Huggins said. "We shouldn't make as bad as decisions as we do, because we have guys who have experience."

Mountaineers point guard Truck Bryant said one of those bad decisions was taking shots too quickly instead of forcing DePaul to play more defense.

"Me and Joe Mazzulla just made mistakes that freshmen make at the end," Bryant said. "I should have held the ball out and let them chase us when we're up 14, but we felt like we could get to the rim and get easy layups. It didn't go as planned and it came back on us."

Minnesota transfer Devoe Joseph is looking at six potential new homes.

According to Adam Zagoria of ESPN Radio, Joseph is looking at West Virginia, Oregon, Baylor, Pittsburgh, Charlotte and Niagara.