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Say this about West Virginia — the team that had me at my breaking point on deadline Friday night — but that squad leaves very little to the imagination. Quite often what you see is what you get, and Saturday night’s Big 12 championship game was exactly as it appeared. You could watch the whole 40 minutes or the highlights above, or you just take a more brief route and glance at a box score, and quickly arrive at a uniform and thorough conclusion: The Mountaineers were a one-man gang and outnumbered on the floor and on the scoreboard by sharp-shooting, well-rounded Kansas.

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The Jayhawks are nothing if not resilient, and we’ll see how much bounce-back WVU has at the end of this week. The selection show is a two-hour ordeal tonight, and while the Mountaineers couldn’t produce an answer in the final, they think they have this all figured out now.

Other possible starting locations for WVU include Denver, Des Moines, Iowa, Oklahoma City, Providence, Raleigh, North Carolina, St. Louis and Spokane, Washington.

“I think they might put us as a No. 5 or something,” Williams said. “To be honest, I don’t know how they’ll do us. It doesn’t matter. They might put as a No. 5, but wherever they put us, we’ll be ready.”

Williams finished with a career-high 31 points and 10 rebounds for his 15th double-double this season. He made 9 of 12 shots and 13 of 15 free throws. Williams had 18 points on 7-for-7 shooting in the first half.

“It’s the best he’s finished all year,” coach Bob Huggins said.