MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — How deep is Big 12 basketball? Deep enough that West Virginia, with eight of its top 10 players returning from 25-win squad that danced into the Sweet 16, finds itself picked sixth in the 10-team league.
Why did Big 12 coaches vote the Mountaineers closer to the bottom than the top? It surely links to the departure of last year’s engine Juwan Staten, which leaves Bob Huggins entering the season with a point-guard-by-committee scenario. (And one committee member, junior college transfer Teyvon Myers, hasn’t officially been cleared by the NCAA, though he is practicing.