Something is bound to happen today and I’ve been cringing recently as I’ve seen something coming. I’m in the air late this morning until early this afternoon for my flight to LGA before tonight’s game against St. John’s.

The Red Storm is a team a lot like WVU in that they’re young and — well, that’s about it. Don’t be fooled. St. John’s is actually more inexperienced less experienced than the Mountaineers and, as such, has been more inconsistent.

Bob Huggins said the Red Storm youth is “more athletic than ours,” but theirs is also a team  that is 1-5 at the Garden and overall has 266 turnovers and 202 assists and a minus-2.8 rebounding margin. St. John’s shoots 24.4 percent from 3-point range and lets opponents shoot 34.2. Five of the past six losses — and all in seven games — have been by at least 15 points.

WVU has just been more resilient and has ably handled losses this season. It followed its first two losses with three- and five-game winning streaks.

After the loss to Baylor in the championship game of the Las Vegas Classic, the Mountaineers beat Villanova to open Big East play. After a 19-point loss at Seton Hall, WVU led by 25-points at the half and won easily at Rutgers and won at home against then-No. 9 Georgetown to end the Hoyas’ seven-game winning streak.

The Mountaineers led by 10 in the second half and lost to then-No. 17 Connecticut, but again roughed up Rutgers – which, by the way, has wins against Florida, Pitt, UConn and Notre Dame – before winning the Capital Classic against Marshall and ending Cincinnati’s seven-game Big East road winning streak Saturday.

The challenge now is for the Mountaineers to handle success as well as they have disappointment.

“We try not to give them much choice,” Huggins said. “It’s kind of like after the (second) Rutgers game. They came in the next day and we were only going to practice for an hour-and-a-half, but they were awful. So we ran.

“Here’s what I tell them: They’re here all summer. They lift. They run. Obviously, they play before the season starts. They lift. They run even more to get in shape for practice and we practice pretty hard. So why go through all that and not show up and play hard?”