As many of you may have already heard, No. 20 West Virginia did a very important thing Tuesday night to alter the course of its season and calibrate all the talking points about this team.

Oh, and the Mountaineers beat Texas, too.

Along the way, WVU signed Nicholas Wince, a 5-year-old with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and had him spend the day with the team as part of the always awesome Make-A-Wish campaign. Wince spent the day with the team, before and after the game, participating in the shootaround in the afternoon, signing a scholarship after passing the test, joining the the layup line before the game and finally visiting the team after the win in the locker room, where things got crazy.

Jon Holton, for the damn win.

Bob Huggins always says he’s got “good guys,” and you assume it’s just because they get along with one another and don’t want to let teammates down and go to certain lengths to do the right things. You don’t really see it in action, because so much of the team and student-athlete experience is private, no matter how many interviews they do, no matter how many games they play on national television.

This is an exception, a wonderful exception in which the Mountaineers seemed not only proud to have done what they did, but also the beneficiaries of an experience that was supposed to help someone else and ended up rubbing off on them, too.