Amani Hansberry scored 17 points and grabbed career-high 13 rebounds to help West Virginia rally past Cincinnati 62-59 on Wednesday in Morgantown, W.Va., a critical victory for the Mountaineers’ at-large NCAA Tournament hopes.In a battle of the 44th and 45th teams in the NCAA’s NET Rankings, Hansberry notched the second double-double of his college career. The sophomore scored seven of his points during a 17-3 run over a six-minute span of the second half that helped the higher-ranked Mountaineers (16-10, 7-8 Big 12) snap a two-game skid.Cincinnati (15-11, 5-10) trailed 62-53 with 34 seconds remaining, but Dan Skillings Jr. sank a pair of 3-pointers just three seconds apart to make it a one-score game.After calling their final two timeouts, the Mountaineers still failed to get the ball inbounds, giving the Bearcats a chance to tie. However, Tyler Betsey’s 3-point attempt hit the front iron, and Cincinnati lost its second straight and saw its record in Quad 1 games go to 1-9.West Virginia’s Javon Small finished with 16 points, including 10 in the first half. Jonathan Powell contributed 12 points and nine rebounds.Jizzle James, who scored at least 24 points in each of the previous three games, led Cincinnati with 13 on Wednesday. He shot 6-for-20 from the floor and battled foul trouble. Day Day Thomas added 13 points on 5-of-15 shooting.West Virginia made 12 of 14 free throws, while Cincinnati sank just two of its seven foul shots.Cincinnati played without Simas Lukosius. The senior guard, the team’s second-leading scorer (11.4 ppg), sustained a shoulder injury during the team’s loss at then-No. 10 Iowa State on Saturday, the Bearcat Journal reported.