Don’t look now, but here comes Daxter Miles, exhibiting the opposite of what a lot of freshman do and shedding woes and sharpening his tools at the end of that first long regular season. It’s happened, as you know, under unusual circumstances with two seniors sidelined and two freshmen asked to act beyond their age.

Miles slipped for a while not long ago. His shot was flat and his arms weren’t getting the ball above the rim — and that’d be his perimeter shot and his foul shot. Playing times waned, and that’s a bad sign because he ordinarily does a bunch of other things to assist on offense and defense. But when the shot goes, it rarely ever goes alone.

He started listening to his coaches, who told him about his form and the side effects, and the ball started to go in at practice. He was mostly invisible for the first half at Oklahoma State, but he went 2 for 2 from 3-point range early in the second half. His only points and baskets in the game got a run going and WVU beat the only Big 12 team it hadn’t beaten in two-plus seasons in the conference.

The Mountaineers had just beaten Kansas. Miles helped against the Cowboys. Together they vanquished Texas. Miles has made 13 of his past 26 3-point shots and he’s averaged 19 points in the two games without both Juwan Staten and Gary Browne. At the end of Saturday’s Oklahoma State game, Miles was the one working to get open and willing to take fouls and walk to the foul line, where he was just 19 or 37 for the season.

He promptly missed a pair to worry the sold out Coliseum crowd in a 79-72 game with 30 seconds to go. But when Le’Bryan Nash missed for the Cowboys, it was Miles who got the rebound, again took the foul and this time made the foul shots to put the game to bed.

And for his next trick …