Last year, WVU defeated No. 1 Kansas 74-63 in front of 12,097 fans.
“Isn’t this league something?” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said. “We beat Kansas, which was No. 1 in the country last year, and then we went to Oklahoma when they were going to be No. 1 in the country the following week and they beat us on a tip-in at the buzzer. This league is just … we went a long time here and didn’t play the No. 1 team in the country until we beat Vegas (1983). Now all of a sudden, you get one like twice a year.