You are looking live at a little Paint work I did here today, and it gives you an idea what else is on the line today for Bob Huggins, who’s already banked $50,000 this week and can add another 40 grr tonight.

The ‘C’ might as well also stand for “conference affiliation,” because the Big 12 wasn’t looking too good about an hour ago. Oklahoma looked in danger, and a subsewuent WVU loss would be the second time in four days the RPI’s top-rated conference went 0-3, and it would leave the 10-team league without a school in the Sweet Sixteen after it and the ACC saw a field-best seven teams named on selection Sunday.

Oklahoma prevailed, though, and it’s just the Sooners and the Mountaineers still standing here in ‘C’olumbus.

Another? ‘C’areer. If WVU loses and Juwan Staten and Gary Browne (and I suppose also Kevin Noreen) are done at WVU, Browne earns a whale of a distinction: The last player to sign, play four seasons and not reach the Sweet Sixteen was 1999 signee Josh Yeager.

‘C’ is also for “chair.” Remember this?

That’d be Ed ‘C’ooley and the most “Hey, look at me!” technical foul ever. The whistle-blower? Terry Oglesby. The scene? Columbus. What am I dancing around? You already know. Oglesby is one of your officials tonight, along with Tom Eades and Terry Wymer.

But there is some ‘c’ontinuity here that I think you’d like. Wymer is a Big Ten/MAC official who hasn’t seen WU, but has seen Maryland seven times (the Terps are 4-3). Eades is a Big 12/Big Ten official. He’s seen Maryland twice (Terps are 2-2) and worked once of those games with Wymer (a Maryland win). He’s seen WVU four times (WVU is 3-1). Oglesby is also a Big 12/Big Ten official. He’s seen Maryland six times (Terps are 5-1) and WVU three times (2-1). He and Eades both worked the chippy WVU over Texas at the Coliseum.

I think you can find a certain ‘c’almness about getting officials who have seen the teams, who know the conferences and have even worked together in games involving these teams.

Speaking of calm, lots of “head down, writing” tonight, so do pick up the saber for me, if you will. Let’s.