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What I did on my summer vacation

Somewhat curiously, Kansas basketball, which has won or shared the last 11 Big 12 regular-season titles, brought basically its entire team to the World University games as Team USA and won eight games in 10 days to cop the gold medal — including a double overtime affair in the championship game against Germany that was actually quite fun to watch. That was a good run for the Jayhawks.

West Virginia went to the Bahamas and kicked a tomato can around the floor for 40 minutes Monday.

None of what follows are typos: 111-39 final score, a 28-3 score in the second quarter, a friggin’ 50-5 run in the final 15:23 of the first half, 43 steals, 55 forced turnovers and a 55-22 rebounding advantage.

Starting lineup: Carter, Miles, Paige, Holton, Williams. Ten players played between 10:40 and 23:39. Esa Ahmad missed a bunch of free throws and chased a double-double.

You can watch the entire game, if you want, in the above window. It’s all four quarter, not just the first. When one quarter ends, the next begins. Feel free to share your thoughts as you collect them.

Or just revel in this.

I’d argue that there’s no way that was more productive than a practice, but WVU had 32 assists on 43 baskets on the good side of the ledger but also filled the bad side by committing 27 turnovers and shooting 18-for-35 at the free-throw line. There were some things to learn from the affair, and Bob Huggins found that black lining.

“I thought defensively we did some good things,” said coach Bob Huggins. “We have to continue to get better and not develop bad habits. Overall, we played pretty hard.”

I assure you, he was thinking about snorkeling with dolphins as he said that. He might have been in the mood for an hour by that point. WVU has two more of these to go down there, and, whoo boy, if that team was Elite, I can’t imagine what awaits the Mountaineers tomorrow against the Atlantis All-Stars, which might be a collection of the best lifeguards, chefs, concierges and shuttle drivers at chosen resorts.