This is ridiculous. Just ridiculous. Watch it and tell me I’m wrong. It’s either a foul on West Virginia or it’s out of bounds on Oklahoma State. There’s no third option here, except that the official went to the third option and called it out of bounds off WVU.

That was overshadowed in the moment because if closely followed The Worst Call of the 2014-15 Season, that being when Gary Browne slipped and fell on defense and put an arm up to protect himself because Jeff Newberry was about to trip and fall on Browne and had to put his arm out to protect himself.

Gary Browne eased himself to the floor before that charge. pic.twitter.com/LyxDn05zK9

— Big 12 Refs (@Big12Refs) February 21, 2015

They called this called a charge, and Travis Ford’s reaction was just delightful. He was amused, to say the least.

Anyhow, last Friday night, Justin Jackson and I were eating dinner in Iowa before WVU v. Iowa State. We were trying to predict the future, or at least figure out where this team and this season were going. One of us recommended and we both agreed that we’d have an answer, at long last, the following Saturday night: at Iowa State, vs. Kansas, at Oklahoma State would be informative.

I think you have to agree on a few things now:

1) WVU is in the NCAA tournament.
2) WVU is a top half of the Big 12 team.
3) Bob Huggins is leading the race for Big 12 coach of the year.

Obviously, when the Mountaineers are right, they’re capable of what they’ve done this past week. And when they’re off, they’re capable of what they did the previous few weeks. What I’m still not clear on is whether this team is more like the one from the past two games or the one from two weeks before that.

That said, I think we can agree on this: These guys give you something to talk about, and on Saturday they won with two things you don’t normally expect them to win with: 3-point shooting and halfcourt defense.

“That’s probably as well as we’ve played in the halfcourt,” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said.

WVU had a season-low five steals and forced 15 turnovers, the third-lowest total of the season, but allowed only 10 points in the paint and just 36 shot attempts. The Mountaineers (21-6, 9-5 Big 12) held the Cowboys (17-8, 7-8) without a basket for 8:29 in the first half and 8:31 in the second half.

Wofford had six points in the paint earlier this season against WVU and North Carolina State attempted 36 shots — and it has been 16 seasons since an opponent took fewer shots in a game.

“I thought we did a pretty good job for the most part keeping them in front of us,” said Huggins, who admitted he backed off his press at times to manage foul trouble. “They had to work hard to get shots. And then we weren’t in any hurry to take shots on our end, either. That tends to make the game go a little faster.”

WVU’s 47 shots were a season-low, but that was accompanied by another little surprise. The Mountaineers matched a season high set against Virginia Tech with 10 3-pointers in 20 attempts to cap a momentous week that began with Monday’s home win against No. 8 Kansas.

“The confidence to beat Kansas and to play the way we played against them, that lets us know when we play as a team and everyone contributes and does what they’re supposed to do, we can have success against everybody,” WVU point guard Juwan Staten said.