(The 100th Friday Feedback is coming, but later. I have a story to write for the Internet, but also FF100 isn’t going to have much actual feedback. I figure there’s a lot of questions and comments out there after last night and looking forward to the weekend and selection Sunday. Fire away. I’ll do the best I can.)

Da’Sean Butler’s game-winner thrilled even Wikipedia.

At the very least, Butler bolstered his reputation with not only his fifth game-winning shot, but also a remarkable escape from the postgame celebration and a moment of insanity in which an overexcited Devin Ebanks felt compelled to choke Butler out.

Hey, it’s March. Sometimes you lose your head. Sometimes you lose your teammate’s head.

I’m without words for covering these guys. It is impossible to write their stories on deadline. That’s a normally rapid process of scurrying through timeouts to add and subtract and re-shape. With WVU, it’s a rapid and completely unpredictable process and in the final 90 seconds I went in four totally different directions — WVU wins after Butler’s flick to Jones for the layup as the shot clock expired (don’t forget that play), overtime after the Stephenson 3, U.C. wins after WVU’s terrible shot-clock violation, Butler’s game-winner.

When Butler won it and I studied the scene, I looked down at my screen and saw my story. With gaps for organization and if-then scenarios that depended on who won, it was seven pages long. A page is about 18 inches. A story should be about 24 to 26 inches.

It’s like that.

And the worst part? We know better. I have no idea why I or you or anyone tries to establish some finality to any of this team’s games until the end. It’s not going to change. The Mountaineers admit it. They say it’s too late to solve it and they must learn to live and prosper with it.

And now, if you believe in full-circle omens, you have Butler and the Mountaineers going up against Notre Dame tonight at 9:30 or so and while I don’t know this, I know this: WVU wants/wanted the Fighting Irish. That debacle in South Bend back in January lingers and Butler, you’ll remember, actually missed a game-winner at the buzzer.

On the other side, Marquette is playing very well. In five-point games, the Golden Eagles are 9-6 … and that’s after a 1-6 start. One loss? Butler beat Marquette at the buzzer in December. No one in this league plays more close or frantic games than these two teams. These are things you see coming this time of year.

You can bank on it.

“I was supposed to just catch the ball and get a couple dribbles inside the 3-point line,” Butler said. “But when I caught the ball, they pressed up on me and I kind of lost balance and by the time I squared up, I only had time to take one dribble instead of two or three. I took the dribble, put it up and it felt good. I saw it hit the glass and I said, ‘That’s fine. Winner.'”

Cincinnati freshman Lance Stephenson was guarding on the play.

“He called it,” Stephenson said. “He said, ‘Bank.’ I said, ‘What?’ and I looked and it went in.”