The last time college basketball has an iconic team like this Kentucky juggernaut? Respect due to the 2010 Kentucky team or the Wildcats who won it all two years later. Apologies to the Florida squads that won back-to-back titles and the Butler teams that made the finals twice in a row. No offense to any of the great Duke teams or Arkansas and its 40 Minutes of Hell. St. Joe’s and Illinois? Wichita State? Other teams that strung together lengthy undefeated runs? Sorry!

The last time a team really captivated like this had to be the Fab Five, right? And Bob Huggins is the one privileged and possibly pained enough to get them both in the NCAA tournament.

“There are similarities because we’ve got a lot of newcomers,” Martin said. “I think the year we went to the Final Four we had five or six newcomers, guys who had never played D-I basketball, which is similar to this team.

“The only difference with the Final Four team was we were juniors and seniors, we were kind of like men and we knew what we were getting into. This team, you have Dax Miles, a freshman, Jevon Carter, a freshman, Devin Williams, a sophomore. Even Jaysean Paige and Jon Holton, this is their first year of D-I.”

Cincinnati couldn’t take down the Fab Five, but maybe Miles isn’t blowing smoke about WVU’s chances against UK. Although, keep in mind the Wildcats are winning games by an average of 20 points and have been subject to articles about the greatest college teams of all time, and whether or not UK could beat an NBA team.

“The mentality of this (WVU) team is similar to the mentality of the team in 1992 in that they’re very confident, and they are tough guys that think they have something to prove,” Harrison said. “The Cincinnati team didn’t have the most highly recruited guys; they had the junior college flavor that we have. It is all similar to this team, the toughness and the confidence, going up against a team that we supposedly don’t have a chance against.”