You are looking live the signature sequence from last year’s WVU v. Texas Tech game here at the Coliseum. It escalated quickly. What you may or may not know is that these two teams have played some weird and wild games against one another since the Mountaineers joined the Big 12. (Actually, even before that, because the Sweet Sixteen game in 2005 was fantastic.)

Begin in 2013. WVU led at home 61-53 with 3:19 left and survived when a buzzer-beater 3-pointer fell short. That was WVU’s last win that season, one that ended when Dejan Kravic’s tip-in just before the buzzer fell and knocked the Mountaineers out of the Big 12 tournament.

The 2014 game in Lubbock was nuts — Juwan Staten got a technical … from John Higgins — and WVU wasted an 11-point lead only to force overtime and then avoid a second on the strength of made and missed 3s. The encore in Morgantown was an odd classic, featuring Dusty Hannah’s lip and his 3s.

Last year’s game in Lubbock was mostly uneventful, but the game here was tense and produced the above mele. When the two got together in Lubbock in January, Texas Tech’s Aaron Ross and WVU’s Elijah Macon danced and picked up technicals, and a fan scurried down the aisles to berate Watkins during the postgame handshake. Preceding that was Tarik Phillip’s invincibility star and eight points in the final 70 seconds to steal the win.

Tonight’s game is going to be intense because of who’s playing and because of what’s at stake. Texas Tech believes it should have won the first matchup and knows it can still get to 10 Big 12 wins. It had nine the previous two years. WVU could secure no worse than the No. 3 seed in next week’s conference tournament with a win and can be the No. 2 with a win tonight and Saturday at Baylor.

The Red Raiders are not a pushover, not a team WVU can look at and say, “Never lost to those guys in a regular-season game. Loose on the laces tonight, fellas.” Texas Tech was 3-7 in the Big 12 at one point, but ripped off five straight wins and beat ranked Iowa State, Baylor and Oklahoma in order by three, 18 and three points at home, on the road and at home. That’s not easy.

What makes this even more commendable is that this is happening without Norense Odiase, who was doing some really nice work before breaking his foot against TCU. He hasn’t played since, which means barring a Big 12 tournament matchup — which is not impossible — Odiase will not play the Mountaineers and his good buddy Brandon Watkins.

That said, I did talk to Odiase about the incident and his team’s relationship with the Mountaineers.

The first thing you must understand about this episode is that Odiase missed most of it. He remembers a lot of it, but he didn’t catch and then didn’t understand much of what everyone remembers.

“The thing is I didn’t see it. I never saw him flipping me off,” Odiase said. “People were like, ‘Why’d you get mad? Because he flipped you off?’ I’m like, ‘I didn’t see that part of it.’ I didn’t even know about it until I played it back. Then I was like, ‘Oh.’ “

That was a pretty heated moment, though. And Odiase never saw it? What if he had seen it?

“Had I seen it,” he said, “I still would have reacted the same way.”

The referee that day was Joe DeRose and he was working with Keith Kimble and Rod Dixon. Watch that replay. The officials are each on top of the action. They see the foul. They step in because they know it was not slight. They get involved to separate people. They did their jobs.

“I was talking to the ref, and he was like, ‘Just go back to your bench,’ and then he said something about taunting, but I had no idea I was going to get kicked out for that,” Odiase said.

He got kicked out for that.

“He came over to the bench: ‘No. 13 is kicked out for taunting,'” Odiase said. “I didn’t get it. I still don’t get it.”

The scorebook shows a personal foul on Watkins and a personal foul and a technical foul on Odiase. Just one. One technical. One person receiving one technical. One person receiving any sort of punishment for the extracurriculars.

“I can remember getting a couple of technicals in my life, but I’d never been kicked out of a game,” he said, remembering how the only trouble he’d ever found was far more common and far less serious. “Probably something like hanging on the rim during an intense game in another team’s house. Something like that.”

Odiase does recall what happened before his day came to an end. Maybe the action was building to a moment like that. Later, of course.

“I remember a heated game with a lot of emotions flaring up and maybe not the right decisions,” he said.

Odiase had just committed an offensive foul which gave WVU possession, and Watkins made a jumper on the other end. Who knows if any of that is relevant, but it did precede the scrum.

“He fouled our point guard, Robert Turner, and I thought it was intentional,” Odiase said. “Then it went from there.”

Odiase spent the rest of the game in the visitor’s locker room. His coach, Tubby Smith, has a rule that players remain in their uniforms, so Odiase couldn’t shower and change. He had to sit and wait. No WiFi. No television. And nobody brings their homework from the bus to the locker room.

“The whole time I’m looking at the cinderblock wall like, ‘Well, this probably wasn’t a good decision,’ ” he said. “I couldn’t do anything. I was literally staring at a wall.”

The team came in at halftime down 37-31. Then it left. He listened to the crowd of 12,192 and felt the opposite of what he heard. Boos were good. Cheers were bad. Every now and then someone would hurry from the bench to the locker room to give him an update. Athletic director Kirby Hocutt came in at one point, and the two had a “positive” conversation about the young team with five freshmen and the direction they were all headed together.

“There was a security guard right outside, so I knew I was staying in there for a while,” Odiase said.

The game ended, and WVU won comfortably. The agony was only starting for Odiase.

“The West Virginia fans were after me pretty good on Twitter,” he said. “Some of them were personal, but I know it comes with the territory. It was funny.”

Odiase said he had the games against WVU circled this season, especially the one tonight. “It matters,” he said. “It matters.” He wanted to be a part of the game, because he enjoyed the two he was in last season, and he believes Smith’s lengthy relationship with WVU coach Bob Huggins and their mutual respect brings out the best of both teams. But Odiase also believes a whole lot of people have the wrong idea about him.

“Honestly, though, that doesn’t bother me at all,” he said. “Things happen in a game, and if you only see that part of me, then that’s unfortunate.”