Let’s not relive the downs. We’ve been there and we’ve done that, and this is a different story this season and last season and, given the trend, for the upcoming seasons as well. West Virginia has a preseason top 20 program that’s esteemed enough to be picked No. 2 in the Big 12. It certainly has the capacity to improve on both of those projections.

Bob Huggins, who vowed to fix it, is a man of his word. He’s changed the way he plays and he’s changed the players he targets. “Think about who was here, where they went and how productive they are or they had been where they were,” Huggins said.

Um, everybody gets that, right? But don’t forget who stayed. Juwan Staten was really good in 2014 and thought about the NBA. He picked WVU instead and just as Huggins picked the press over what he’d been doing. The way both Staten transitioned from one style to another was extremely beneficial for the Mountaineers, for Huggins and for players on that team and on future teams.

Staten played 37.3 minutes per game in 2014, when he was first-team all-Big 12. He averaged six minutes less the next year, which was the first year WVU pressed and taxed its players.

“I think the people in his circle felt like he wasn’t playing enough,” Huggins said. “So we went back and charted possessions, and he actually played more possessions playing the way we play now.”

Staten bought in, and the Mountaineers were on their way. You have to remember, players and their handlers, friends, family and whoever else was in their circle had become a problem. Henderson transferred before he even told his father.

“I think people got in their lives and didn’t really have their best interests in heart with all the B.S., like, ‘You’re a pro, man. They need to let you do this. They need to let you do that,’ ” Huggins remembered. “It’s my fault.”

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