Not everyone gets this game on TV tonight, so input and feedback would probably be appreciated on their behalf.

All things considered, this will be a revealing game for WVU. I don’t see the good Mountaineers having too much trouble with DePaul. Yes, it’s on the road and, yes, the Blue Demons are a little better lately. Yet if this WVU team is to be good this season, it travels with the team that handled Ohio State in the second half Saturday and leaves the bunch who struggled at Cleveland State home.

Then again, the bad Mountaineers with a terrible habit for slow starts and spotty shooting could take the floor and be in trouble.

Come tomorrow morning, we should have a better idea about WVU: Is it an improving team? Is it the same old same old? Is it, with a loss, without an identity? We don’t know. And so it is we watch to see who comes out of the locker room.

Should West Virginia fill in the blanks and stop shooting them, it might have a very capable, very dangerous basketball team.

Seems an unfair statement to make of the ninth-ranked team in the country, which Monday returned to the top 10 after a week’s vacation.

Yet it matters to the Mountaineers, who for a time Saturday looked like a team that should have been playing later in the day at the Primetime Shootout against the likes of Oak Hill Academy and Arlington Country Day, but also looked as if they might deserve an invitation to Lucas Oil Stadium to party with Kentucky, Texas, Villanova or some of the season’s other elites at the Final Four.

This isn’t unusual for WVU, which lately has been a fascinating –am … in that it only appears in the second half.