Another non-conference basketball mystery! WVU started the scheduling with 28 openings. Eighteen go to the Big 12 games in the double round robin format, which means a home game against Kansas State instead of a Civic Center date with the Wildcats. Then come 10 non-conference openings.

Nine of those are filled, including the Old Spice Classic, Michigan, Purdue (!), Marshall and Duquesne back at that Consol Energy Center. The remaining group is three mid-majors and one high major at home to start a non-conference series. The mid-majors are done and WVU isn’t sharing in case something happens and a deal falls apart. The other?

“There will be one more very good, high major coming to Morgantown,” Calhoun said. “We’re looking for one more high major for a series, not just for a game in Morgantown.”

Unlike last year, when WVU knew the mystery mid-major opponent and teased me with it and wouldn’t tell me and we ended up guessing about it all summer and saw it was Kent State in that 10 a.m. game, this high major opponent is not yet known. So rather than guesses, we have to go for guesses. Early candidate: South Carolina.