No F Double because I’m traveling — I can handle some questions in the comments — but solid work as usual this week. We’ll bring down an establishment one of these days … which is what West Virginia seeks to do tomorrow night.

Simply put, no one messed with the Mountaineers quite like Texas did last season: 3-0 record, wins by 11, 17 and 17 points that were never that close because the Longhorns had leads of 21, 21 and 30 points, shot better than 50 percent in five of six halves (and 48 percent in the sixth) and had more than 100 points in the paint.

But WVU is bigger in addition to better and better as a result of being bigger. The Mountaineers have held up nicely so far against size in the Big 12, and not quite as nicely against LSU, but looking solely at that overlooks what might be most important.

WVU’s counter is not its size to match Texas’ style, but the style the Mountaineers present that the Longhorns have to counter.

“Speed negates height,” point guard Juwan Staten said. “Height doesn’t really mean anything when you have to dribble the ball against speed and pressure. Height is really only effective in half court.”

That was true throughout last season’s contests. Texas outscoured WVU 102-62 in the paint and was able to get dunks and layups among a long list of easy scores. Yet WVU’s offense is a factor, too, that can go at Texas’ strength. The pace on offense generates pace on defense. WVU believes its plan and personnel can counter for the Longhorns.

“A lot of people now are using their bigs to try to break pressure and they’ve got them bringing the ball up the floor and trying to get it to their guards and get into whatever they want to get into,” Huggins said.

“Then when the shot’s taken, Jon Holton runs like crazy – and he does run now – and his guy’s got to sprint like crazy to catch him on the other end so he doesn’t get a layup, and Wanny does a great job pushing, so if Jon’s open, he’s going to get it to him. But (opponents are) constantly running, which they don’t do every game. We do. Other people don’t.”

Sorry if that doesn’t excite you, but what else do you want to talk about? How E.G.G. thinks renewing the Marshall series “makes sense”?