That’s a picture of Jaysean Paige. The video is of Bob Huggins at his postgame news conference Monday, when he sat much closer to my flip cam than I expected. The story of the game was Paige, though, who got in foul trouble and then got hot in the second half. He finished with 20 points in 15 minutes and had 18 points on eight shots in 11 minutes in the second half — and we knew it was coming, which is what makes Paige and those moments so fun.

Paige and Tarik Phillip had 32 of the team’s 50 points in the second half, a 20-minute stretch when one forward scored two points, as the Mountaineers pulled off the rare and difficult back-to-back-to-back wins on the road for the first time in 26 seasons.

“It’s not easy, especially in conference play right off the jump,” guard Jaysean Paige said. “A lot of people are coming for us and want to beat West Virginia. It was a long road trip and we tried to stay focused game by game and not look ahead.”

Looking back, the Mountaineers (13-1, 2-0 Big 12) left campus Dec. 29 and won a day later at Virginia Tech. They flew to Manhattan, Kan., after the game and then opened conference play Jan. 2 against Kansas State. WVU won in double overtime and then flew here for the game in Schollmaier Arena, which had 4,739 people see the first loss in the building following a $72 million renovation and two non-conference wins last month.

To complicate matters Monday, WVU had extreme foul trouble and was behind for 18:04. There were five ties, six lead changes and two reasons the Mountaineers prevailed. Paige scored 18 of his 20 points in 11 minutes in the second half. Tarik Phillip scored 14 of his 18 points after halftime. Each came off the bench.

Paige, who earlier Monday was named the Big 12 player of the week, scored 17 and a career-high 25 points in the other two road games. Phillip scored 12 and 14.

Since the 1988-89 season, WVU had eight other stretches of three consecutive road games and went 2-1 twice, 1-2 four times and 0-3 twice.

“We prepared for these road wins,” Phillip said. “I feel like a couple practices before we left, they were really hard. Coach Huggins ran us a little more than usual. But the mental part was the biggest thing. We all stuck with each other all road trip, and when one guy was down, other guys stepped up. It was a team effort.”

Highlights? Just for you.