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Huggins benches two starters, Mountaineers still fail to respond

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — There is no magic wand Bob Huggins could wave that will magically fix a West Virginia men’s basketball program that dropped its fourth straight Big 12 game Saturday, 85-77, to Oklahoma State in front of a reported 11,339 people at the WVU Coliseum.

If there was, it would have been waved long ago.

And no, the fact that Huggins benched senior Esa Ahmad and junior Wesley Harris for the game wasn’t the white flag of surrender being waved, either.

“All of those guys are like my kids, just like all of the guys that I’ve had in the past,” Huggins said.