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Nate Adrian is the preseason

October 12, 2016 by Mike Casazza

Basketball is just sort of happening right now. West Virginia has been practicing all month. The Gold-Blue Debut is tomorrow in Wheeling. Big 12 media day is Oct. 25. We don’t know much about the Mountaineers apart from what they need to do better than they did last year and, you know, everyone’s better now than they were last year.

But when you think of the preseason, what do you think of? New features. Added dimensions. Experiments.

Behold Nate Adrian eight days ago. This became a Thing, and it encouraged some fantastic feedback from Adrian fans. (Aside: WVU’s Nate Adrian, I should say. Not the U.S. swimmer. There was some confusion and at least one since-deleted tweet.)

Well, I have an update for you as Adrian continues to showcase new features, add dimensions and experiment. If you need a report that is worthy of sports journalism, you’ll be happy to know Adrian is in line to start again this season and play at the top of the press, roles in which he excelled last season upon replacing Jon Holton.