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— WVU Men's Basketball (@WVUhoops) June 22, 2016

Say you sink money into season tickets. One. A pair. Four for your family. We’ve been over the non-conference schedule, and I’m going to assume, based on past patterns, it won’t be too deep into the season before some crowds are thin and Bob Huggins voices a displeasure funded by a frustration his fans aren’t showing up to see his team.

But all of that aside — and conceding Virginia Tech should have been on the home schedule — WVU has to go 9-0 at home in non-conference play, right? It’s essentially a one-game slate, and the Mountaineers seemingly have an edge by being at home against Texas A&M, which could be in for an understandable dip this season. It’s not a terrible loss, but wouldn’t 8-1 feel different than 9-0, especially when the rest of the non-conference is a preseason NIT field with Temple, Illinois and Florida State, with only the Seminoles considered a fringe top-25 team, and a game at Virginia?