Time for our annual reminder: Mike Carey is really good and probably really underappreciated. His unranked-for-now team strolled into the Hilton Coliseum last night and started punching people in the mouth and banging them over the head with 3-pointers in another road win and another upset, I guess, of a ranked team.

WVU is rolling along at 14-2 overall and 4-1 in the Big 12, and the Mountaineers, I should tell you, were first among teams receiving votes in this week’s AP poll. On Wednesday, they battled foul trouble throughout and kept the league’s best 3-point shooting team really quiet.

Iowa State entered Wednesday’s game averaging 9.9 threes a game, and were held to only two, shooting 20 percent (2-10) from beyond the arc. The Mountaineers capitalized from 3-point range, recording 12 threes on 40 percent (12-30) shooting. Caldwell, Stepney and Holmes each had three threes, while Palmer and senior guards Brooke Hampton and Jess Harlee each added a trey. Every Mountaineer that played scored.

“I thought we took them off the spot on the threes. We shot better today from the perimeter than we have for the last three or four games. When (Asya) Bussie got the ball, they had two or three people on her so it was people really stepping into their shot and getting good looks,” Carey explained. “I thought we had a good game plan coming in, and I thought our players followed it.”

Meanwhile …

… Bob Huggins is working at something of a disadvantage. No fewer than two-thirds of the Big 12 teams are more athletic than his — and that’s by his own admission and an admission that really won’t draw many arguments.

WVU is more agile than it was a year ago, but still not alarmingly so and still not enough to really make a splash in the Big 12. The Mountaineers are nevertheless playing, competing and on occasion winning with their shortcomings.

And since we’re here and I won’t be here tomorrow and Scoop & Score imploded today, feel free to fire off some questions in the comments about Childress, Trickett, recruiting, coaching, basketball, etc. I’ll get to them as can today and tomorrow.