A month from now, we might see WVU’s awful loss to Cincinnati as the game that kept it out of the NCAA Tournament … or perhaps it’s the game the delivered team there. Really, it’s up to them.

The Mountaineers haven’t been as low as they were Wednesday night and Coach Bob Huggins says they are in a hole now. Yet Saturday night, they began to climb out of it with a victory at Providence and an exhibition that indicated they’re a refocused group and on the same page with Huggins.

Huggins said was like a bunch of boys playing against men.

Then you add in the fact that Huggins lost to a team coached by former assistant Mick Cronin, who basically distanced himself from his former boss in order to get the head coaching job.

“It was disappointing because even though he’s our guy, Huggs is our boy,” Alexander said. “We felt that we kind of screwed him over.”