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And now, the comeback begins

SAM OWENS | Gazette-Mail The WVU Mountaineers cheerleaders and mascot take the court during a time-out in the second half of the first round of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, on Friday March 18, 2016. The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks, a 14-seed, rolled over the WVU Mountaineers, a two-seed, 70-56.

So let’s try to clean things up here and steer the comments back on track, if that’s OK with you. Hopefully, it is, because I’m going to be out of the office for a few days.

Anyhow, at this time last week, you first formed or acknowledged a line of thinking that said Stephen F. Austin was like West Virginia. That was pretty providential come Friday night. But in the wake of the loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, how about this for a look into the future? Maybe the Mountaineers will be like the Lumberjacks.

Williams, Adrian and Watkins are the only players who had spent more than one season on WVU’s roster, one that’s experienced two Big 12 and two NCAA tournament wins. Underwood, who is 53-1 in the regular season and 6-0 in the postseason in the Southland Conference the past three seasons, had three players who won an NCAA Tournament game in 2014 and seven who were in the field last year.

“I think that’s what happens,” Huggins said. “I think when you can keep a group together like that — you know, I think the good thing about being at a mid-major is you’re not losing guys every year.”