While counting to six, seven or eight a few times last night, wondering if three-seconds would ever be called and watching DeJuan Blair control the formidable UConn frontcourt, another case of what-might-have-been occurred to me. Blame N.C. State for this.

Huggins wouldn’t have taken the Kansas State job and coached there in 2006-07. And had he been hired in the spring of 2006 at his alma mater?

Then Pitt’s Blair (from Huggins’ pal J.O. Stright’s Pittsburgh AAU team) would have been a Mountaineer. Michael Beasley would have signed with Huggins at WVU, rather than at K-State. It also would have been no stretch to see O.J. Mayo joining Huggins and Beasley at WVU, rather than USC.

Please, don’t hurt yourself.