The 2018-2019 Mountaineer men’s basketball season ended in the most poetic way humanly possible — getting ran out of the gym by a far less talented directional Carolina team in a tournament we paid to host.
The 2019-2020 campaign has gotten off to a much better start as the Mountaineers have reeled off seven straight wins. It’s the best start to a season since 2016 when the Mountaineers won their first seven before losing to Virginia in the Bronx.
The start is all the more remarkable when you consider how disastrous last season was for the program.