(Heard about a West Virginia v. Virginia basketball game the other day, but didn’t think it was this: The Mountaineers and the Cavaliers will play in the 2015 Jimmy V Classic one year from today at Madison Square Garden.)

Weird little thing about this WVU team, in case you haven’t noticed. It’s typically a totally different team, and most times a much improved team, after halftime. There have been a few better-than-decent first halves this season, but mostly the Mountaineers win (and lost) with what happens in the second half.

I think more often than not this time of year you find that ranked teams rough up teams early and coast the rest of the way. Maybe it’s the structure of the roster or that Bob Huggins plays 10 or 11 or 12 people every game and that one or the other or both delays the deployment of Peak WVU. Perhaps the focus on the press is as detrimental the the development of the offense as it is debilitating to the other team’s designs.

Whatever the trigger, the Mountaineers, still ranked and now at No. 22, sometimes struggle in that first half, and Sunday night saw another episode with a dreadful opening 20 minutes … promptly followed by 20 emphatic minutes as the team nears the end of non-conference play.

“I don’t think it’s a good thing,” Devin Williams said. “Once we get in conference play, people are going to jump out on us and we can’t be getting punched in the mouth when we get in conference play. We’ve got to do what we do and bring some of our energy into every game.”

Williams’ other quote of note? It was about his debonair head coach: “When it’s time to put it on, he knows how to put it on.”

The best postgame moment? Oscar Robertson was at the game to see Huggins and O took pictures with WVU’s players and their friends and family members after the game. Jon Holton was in awe, first telling someone from his group, “Go get a picture with that guy. That’s Oscar Robertson.” When Holton was done with his interviews, he got his shot with O. “Don’t take any pictures with anyone else. I want this to be special.”