Spoiler alert! The running commentary follows the jump.

Tip: John Flowers is the third-tallest WVU player on the floor. He takes the tip and it goes out of bounds to Davidson.

19:38: Davidson backcut No. 1, but Kevin Jones helps on the back end and discourages a layup … then hits a foul-line jumper. That’s him in a nutshell.

18:27: Deniz Kilicli gets beat in transition and Danny Jennings is at the scorer’s table before WVU gets past mid-court. Truck Bryant drives and converts a three-point play. Davidson drives and scores again, but Bryant counters with a second and-one on a dribble handoff/screen from Jennings. Do what you do! Truck misses the free throw and it’s 7-6 WVU.

16:55: WVU subs Jonnie West for Casey Mitchell and has West, Jennings, Truck, Flowers and Jones. They promptly play great halfcourt defense to force a bad shot against the shot clock. Pretty nice continuity there.

16:50: Flowers becomes the tournament’s first victim of the experimental three-quarters circle for block-charge under the basket. Erases a basket.

16:48: Truck with a steal at mid-court. Layup. He has seven.

16:03: Inbound play, West hits a corner 3.

15:20: Jennings flies for a defensive rebound and John Sciambi says, “Wow, almost hit his head on the shot clock.” I include this not because it’s absurd, but because it’s fairly accurate.

14:45: West with a backcut. Misses the absolutely uncontested layup. Do what you do!

14:20: High-low pass from Flowers to Jones for an easy layup and its 14-8. Flowers is very, very good at making that entry pass.

13:33: Another inbound under-the-basket score. Mazzulla to Flowers for a layup and a 16-8 lead.

12:20: Kilicli has more ink on the tattoo on his right forearm … and two fouls.

12:12: Thoroughman’s first contribution is a tip-to-me defensive rebound. Screens on the other end. Mazzulla drives and dishes to a cutting Jones for a layup.

11:43: Davidson is 0-for-6 from 3-point range and hasn’t been close on any of them.

11:37: Truck and Mazzulla together for the first time in the regular season. It’s 18-11 with Dalton Pepper, Jones and Thoroughman. J.P. Coleman sheds Mazzulla and drives and scores despite a foul by Pepper, who takes a seat. Flowers enters because he can guard.

10:54: … and cut. Thoroughman pass sets Flowers up for a one-and-one. He makes both. Both!

9:30: ESPNU notices Bryant and Mazzulla together. Hubert Davis: “I like that. It gives them two ball-handlers.”

9:22: Jennings just … I don’t even know what to say. He was trailing Truck in transition and took a bounce pass at the foul line. He hopped and tried to dunk over three defenders and was fouled. Good thing because he was going to dunk that. Given the alternatives, Davidson will take one free throw.

8:56: Early observation this season: Truck is very comfortable at floating — especially left to right — and shooting. He scores for the second time today on that very maneuver. He did it at least twice against Oakland (Mich.). Flowers follows with a 3 and it’s 26-16 after a lull.

8:03: Hubert: “I think West Virginia is the best shooting team in the Big East.” That’s quite a statement in a league loaded with guard play.

6:31: Jennings draws a double-team for the first time I can remember. Don’t think it’ll be the last. His pass goes back past halfcourt for a turnover.

5:18: Mitchell with a dribble step-back 3 and makes his second in a row. He has eight points since the under-8 TV timeout. Best part? He waves his arms, then stops suddenly as he remembers he needs to guard. Davidson calls a timeout and its 34-20.

3:52: Cam gets a technical foul and, of course, cannot believe it. Huggins is more resigned to the call, but tells an official, “That’s what happens.” I think he’s mad the call was made by someone away from the ball moments after an official away from the ball overturned a Davidson turnover. And watching the replay, I have no idea why there was a double foul before the equally dubious technical. Davidson misses the technical free throws and somewhere Pat Beilein says “Ball don’t lie” while Roy Hibbert rolls his eyes.

3:10: Flowers misses a baseline jumper and Jennings gets an offensive rebound he had no business getting, but pulled in anyhow after tipping it to himself in a crowd and then jumping over that crowd to grab it while being fouled. He makes both free throws. Good half for him.

1:55: Bad call on a Mitchell charge. Defender wasn’t close to set or square, but Mitchell comes out anyhow. Jennings with a block and then Flowers gets called for an offensive foul. The officials are in the Coliseo, in case you’d forgotten during an otherwise crisp half.

1:05: Mid-court steal by Truck, who flicks ahead to Mazzulla, who grabs it on baseline and slaps it back to Pepper, who misses a layup that’s dunked in by Flowers who lives in that house that Huggins built.

Halftime: 42-29 as Truck has 11 points and about eight other impactful plays. Flowers has nine points and six rebounds.

19:47: First possession of the second half? High-low from Flowers to Jones. Hubert: “I wish West Virginia would do that more.” Jennings started the second half, by the way.

19:15: High-low from Truck to Flowers. Flowers misses, but Jennings gets the rebound and is fouled. He makes one of two free throws.

18:52: Davidson is 0-for-10 from 3. Something about Wildcats and Mountaineers and the perimeter …

18:34: Flowers gets his third foul and is replaced by Mazzulla.

17:44: Another inbound play gets an easy shot for Jones, but it’s blocked. Jennings rebounds again and is fouled again and misses two free throws. He has four points – all free throws – and seven rebounds. I’m certain WVU would like to be able to add some distance right here at 45-30.

17:11: Another inbound play. In from Mazzulla to Jones, who gets open by a Jennings screen. Jennings rolls, catches the pass and dunks. Timeout Davidson. Best I’ve seen Jennings play, free-throw struggles aside. Put it this way: There’s a reason he’s getting to the line.

16:06: Jennings gets called for a push going for an offensive rebound, but I honestly think he used his arms to move his man and did so with such ease it just looked like a foul.

15:59: Looking at my primitive stats, Davidson is 0-for-13 from 3-point range for the game and this half is 0-for-7 from the floor and 2-for-4 at the foul line.

15:04: First Davidson basket is a three-point play – putback and a foul on Kilicli. He sits with four fouls (two in 55 seconds). It’s 48-34.

14:25: These officials are brutal. They’re calling a foul on any contact on a shot or cut inside the block under the basket. WVU now has eight fouls this half. This happens every year and especially in these tournaments. Officials and opponents are simply not yet adjusted to how hard WVU plays, especially on defense, and the whistles go berzerk.

13:55: Davidson is already in the bonus. Long half ahead of us. The first 16 minutes of this game were really open and fun. The last 12 have been hard to watch. Ten-point game now.

13:33: Flowers with a putback and everyone looked around for a whistle.

12:49: Inbound play, Pepper slips behind a screen and hits a fallaway 3. I know what I’d be writing about today.

12:02: Davidson is 0-for-15 from 3 now.

10:07: Really odd sight of the bench. Kilicli is bummed. Flowers is frustrated, I would imagine, because he’s had a good day and isn’t being allowed to sustain. Cam has his knee iced. Mitchell is … well, he’s always emotionless. Doesn’t look like a team winning or even enjoying itself very much. Usually very much the opposite for WVU.

9:23: Offensive rebound basket for Jennings. He has eight points and 10 rebounds.

8:19: Kilicli just got shoved in the basket and ended up on the ground, which is hard to do, and then, presumably because he had no clue what would and would not be called, let’s his man score easily on the other end.

7:43: Not sure what was said in the dead ball, but Kilicli commits a foul and seems to know it … but it’s called an offensive foul.

7:24: He makes up for it, though, by missing a hook and then needlessly going over the back for a foul. He fouls out and looked lost. Not a good day. No points and, if I have it right without the Internet, no rebounds. That’s also the 54^th foul a d we’re just past the under-8 timeout.

6:11: Pepper gets a driving basket and a free throw. As bad as the officiating/play has been, I suppose you have to credit the players and coaches for knowing they can drive and get to the foul line. Then again, perimeter offense has been non-existent, so perhaps there is no other choice.

5:00: I’ll say it: It’s 66-54 and Davidson will make a 3 soon to make this very interesting. Wildcats are 0-for-18 right now and inexplicably still with a sniff.

4:04: This is very difficult to watch. Two teams battling for a rebound and the WVU player off the ball stumbles. Foul Davidson? Two free throws makes it 70-55. WVU playing Mazzulla, Pepper, Mitchell, West and Jones.

3:35: Davidson score and Pepper misses an easy layup.

3:18: And there’s your Davidson 3 to make it 70-60.

2:54: Mazzulla spins in a left-handed layup.

2:48: Offensive foul Davidson and it’s a call they could have made all game. John Sciambi refers to this at timeout Davidson. Like I said, it’s hard to watch.

2:15: Truck with a 3 and that will do it.

1:03: WVU goes to a four-corner offense and there’s a tear in my eye. Almost done. If WVU and UNC end up playing, the play will be so frenetic and so fractured that  you will get whiplash. The Mountaineers just set the tournament record for free-throw attempts. I’m sure that’s the sort of thing they came for.

0:52.2: WVU with a 49-27 edge in free throws (29-17 in made free throws). Time of play approaching 2:30.

0:42.5: Kevin Jones, I believe, wanted to foul out. No other way to explain what he did on those last two possessions.

N/A: (ESPNU took the clock and score down) Fans chanting “No more fouls” and Sciambi chimes in “The West Virginia fans are chanting ‘One more foul.'” I can’t take this anymore. Final: WVU 84, Davidson 70. Good day.