West Virginia returns to Allen Fieldhouse where it has four losses in four visits, where Naismith’s original rules of basketball are housed, and where Svi Mykhailiuk famously violated one of them by running with the ball .
The Phog and the typically wonderful Kansas teams that inhabit it are a formidable match, and the fact the Jayhawks actually lost their most recent game there — snapping a 51-game homecourt win steak — makes Monday night’s game an even tougher proposition for WVU.
Kansas enters as a 4.5-point favorite, eager to make amends after last month’s 85-69 loss in Morgantown.