WVU is back at the Pittsburgh Basketball Club and playing in the summer Pro-Am League. All 13 Mountaineers to be on scholarship for the upcoming season are playing, except Kevin Jones, Dominique Rutledge and Jabarie Hinds. Rutledge hasn’t graduated from his junior college yet — from what I gather, not an issue, just a date — and Hinds isn’t due to enroll until sometime next month — not sure if that’s an issue, but if so, he has time.

Deniz Kilicli, Truck Bryant, Kevin Noreen and seven newcomers — freshmen Gary Browne, Aaron Brown, Tommie McCune, Keaton Miles and Jay Forsythe and Division-I transfers Juwan Staten and Aaric Murray — are in the league. Kilicli is on a team with walk-on Paul Herbert Williamson and Bryant is with walk-on Aric Dickerson. Noreen and the first-year guys are on one team together.

Those eight — except Murray, who was at Amar’e Stoudemire’s camp over the weekend — made their debut Monday night at the Greentree SportsPlex, barely 48 hours after the freshmen and transfers arrived on campus. They promptly trailed 13-0 and fell behind 32-8 before settling in and somehow making a game of it at the end.

WVU’s team of newcomers had its hands full with Duquesne point guard T.J. McConnell, but also a 6-7 post player from Edinboro named Jakim Donaldson.

The WVU team got close, though, and McCune shot and missed a 3-pointer down 56-50 with 2:00 to go. It was 56-52 with 25 seconds left, but a missed shot and a score the other way led to a 58-54 final score.

“I think it opens our eyes to a lot of things,” Miles said. “The game is much faster and the defense is tough. You only have like three seconds to make a move or you need to pass it.

“But it’s fun to compete and to be able to go against guys who are better than you or who are supposed to be better than you and are more mature than you. I was kind of in awe at first going against them.”