Tonight’s game is too big an occasion to neglect. Texts From Game Day. Hit it strong.

(I’m just going to update this post all day to keep the graphic glowing, er, going.)

Worth repeating: WVU has never lost three straight under Bob Huggins — whereas UConn has lost three in a row right now and Pitt lost eight in a row earlier this season. And WVU has had some brutal two-game losing streaks before this set. Yet the Mountaineers are in the position they find themselves in not because of Hess & Co., but because of something different. Something before that.

“I told them because they didn’t come to play Wednesday, they’ve put themselves in a heck of a hole,” Huggins said.

12:11 pm: Highly unlikely you’ll see O’Connell or Hess tonight. They both called games Sunday. Hess was at Boston College.

Hell, who am I kidding. Back-to-back-to-back isn’t a big thing. Not when there’s a payday. Check out my man Hess: He worked every day from Dec. 17-23 took a holiday break and then worked every day from Dec. 28-Jan. 5. And that’s nothing. Hess had a game every day from Nov. 22-Dec. 7 and traveled 13 times to 12 different cities in those 16 days. O’Connell was in Lewistown, N.Y., yesterday. He’s done three in a row six times and had a stretch with six straight days. Steratore was off yesterday