What is West Virginia, other than not the western part of Virginia? Well, apart from Florida’s opponent in the fifth-place game of the men’s version of the Phil Knight Legacy tournament on this Sunday night, it’s probably one of two things.
The first is the good team that gets smacked by better ones. West Virginia — yes, still coached by the ageless Bob Huggins; no, not quite the “Press Virginia” team it has been in years past — is 5-1, with its five wins coming by double digits against teams outside the KenPom top 100 and its lone loss coming to an excellent Purdue team that never trailed the Mountaineers and kept a lead of four or more points from the moment the Boilermakers won the race to 20 points until triple zeroes on the clock.