Upon further review, more surprising than West Virginia building and losing a 15-point lead Wednesday and the fact Nathan Adrian’s Hail Mary really did enter Dax Miles’ catching radius was Oklahoma had 23 dunks or layups. The Sooners had 35 baskets and four were 3-pointers.

I’m not sure I would have believed that had I not seen it, and even then, I needed to see this shot chart. Shield your eyes!

The Sooners had 35 baskets and four were 3-pointers. They were 31-for-55 from 2-point range, and a lot of the damage was done at, under and above the rim.

WVU’s press was ferocious 10 days ago and for so many of the 15 games before that, but it’s had some wobbly performances and some long stretches when Bob Huggins just didn’t or couldn’t trust it. Against Oklahoma, the Mountaineers were more shadowing than pressing the Sooners the length of the floor.

It’s a quandary. If WVU backs out of the press, it not only weakens the defense — the one that in half-court sets forgives a lot and allows too many straight-line drives — but it diminishes its offense. The Mountaineers average 88.9 points per game, and 29.6 of those points come off turnovers.

They get a lot in transition, and they get a lot just from having so many extra possessions. Scale back the defense and you reduce the transition and the extra possessions, and you expose the offense, which is otherwise not terribly efficient inside or outside. It’s good, but is it good enough to propel or justify a change in personality?

WVU hopes to not find out, but it also knows teams are intent and content to drive and dare the defense to summon stops. It worked for the Sooners, but it was successful at times before Wednesday and it’ll be studied and mimicked moving forward.

“It was their only offense,” WVU forward Brandon Watkins said. “Teams are going to know if they drive the ball — if we don’t get better on the ball, they’re just going to keep driving it and we’re going to keep fouling.”

Huggins schooled the Mountaineers in practice Monday and Tuesday on what the Sooners (8-9, 2-4) liked to do. Then he watched it happen for much of the 45 minutes Wednesday.

“Obviously, we didn’t work hard enough or long enough or they just didn’t give a [darn],” said Huggins, who returns to Kansas State in Saturday’s 6 p.m. ESPN2 game.

Woodard is skilled with the ball and has a knack for drawing fouls, but he also had the 6-foot-9 Lattin or the 6-10 Jamuni McNeace waiting around the rim.

Woodard could get into the paint, and then he’d put a taller defender in a tricky spot — step forward to contest Woodard and leave Lattin or McNeace open for a pass, or stay back to defend Lattin or McNeace and let Woodard score.

On Woodard’s winning layup, he eased past Phillip, and Watkins maintained a careful distance between Woodard and McNeace.

“The whole game we were kind of getting beat off the ball, and every time we’d step up to help, they’d throw the alley-oop,” Watkins said. “Huggs told us about that, and we had to stay with the bigs. It was hard for us to even contest layups. We’ve got to be better at being on-the-ball defenders, and the other part is we’ve got to stay on the bigs and stay in our stance and stare at the ball until the guard makes a decision.

“Either way, I still feel like I did my part wrong. It was a layup. I know I can block shots. But I almost felt like I couldn’t do my part because if I step up, it’s going to be a dunk.”