There have been a lot of comparisons between this West Virginia season and the 2009-10 season, and perhaps that’s because these Mountaineers made it into the top 10 for the first time since those Mountaineers, that this team like that team finished up near the top in a power conference and made it to the final game of the league tournament.

There are a few metropolitan New York City area players now like there were then, and the area figures into the postseason with Brooklyn playing host to these opening weekend games and Manhattan being the site of the Big East tournament six years ago. In that NCAA tournament, WVU was a No. 2 seed. This season, WVU is a No. 3 seed. Those are the school’s highest seed since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

Oh, and Kentucky could be an opponent in the East Region final, though sharing a region seems more norm than exception.

That must be a good omen for Bob Huggins, provided the comparison is apt.

It is not apt.

“Not really,” the Mountaineers coach said. “We don’t play the same. That team had great overall size and length. We didn’t have a real big guy, but we didn’t have a little guy either. There’s not much similarity to the way we play, either.”