… I was not. WVU and Gonzaga opened the annual ESPN college basketball marathon. It probably only felt like a marathon for the Mountaineers.

They began what was supposed to be, and still might be, a much-improved season. They instead took the worst lost in the five-plus seasons with Bob Huggins — and it was never that close.

“We didn’t compete,” Huggins said. “That’s what bothers me more than anything.”

If you didn’t watch, you win. It wasn’t pleasant, and I know this because I watched. For you. Re-live it after the jump.

Reverse chronological order for your reading, so let me give you advice you’ve heard before: Bottoms up!

And disregard the typos. It was late and the live post is faster in basketball than football … and you can’t go back and edit submissions. I was more accurate than the Mountaineers, though.