I’m receiving email guesses and being directed to message board threads about WVU’s “Mysterious Mid-Major” opponent. This is all very fun for the idle days of May, but I do feel kind of guilty because, first, I used that term months ago and, second, this wasn’t a disingenuous attention quest. I really was only interested in how the scheduling would go as opposed to who would go on it.

And yet, there we were again Tuesday spraying Windex on the window to get a better look at the process and, specifically, who is and who is not a mid-major.

Early guesses: Gonzaga, Butler, Xavier, Memphis.

All good ones. And all of them are wrong. Years ago, those were mid-majors, but the classifications have changed.

“We wouldn’t consider them mid-majors,” Calhoun said. “No way.”

Scheduling those games is never easy and it’s going to get more difficult as teams rise up while Butler and VCU and whoever is next make their statements.

Years back Calhoun tried to strike up a series with Siena and Mitch Buonaguro, the head coach now who was an assistant back then, and who Calhoun knew as a player when Buonaguro was an assistant at Cleveland State.

“They were really good and they had been really good for a couple years,” Calhoun said. “They wanted a home game.”

I can’t tell you who it is — honest — because people who can won’t tell me who it is. There is nothing quite as uncertain as an unsigned contract, which is what made reports of a revived WVU v. Purdue series so premature.

I can say it is not Butler, Gonzaga and Xavier because I’ve been told and made aware of different explanations. The other day, we guessed Temple and St. Joe’s because they fit in a number of ways. Yesterday I heard in a separate conversation the name of Kent State — and this person was convinced — which got me thinking about those Flashes and one from the past of Bob Huggins — Akron. I believe MM-M is from that quartet and I’m willing to bump Kent State to the top of the list.