We’re not going to know the answer to the supersedingly important third question — “What the heck happens next?” — for a while. At least Saturday. Perhaps much later. But as everyone waits and wonders and fills their time with certain trivia that I’ll get to, West Virginia attempted to make sense of the two most common curiosities or complaints that came out of the still-stunning-two-days-later loss to Kansas.

What happened to that offense?

Where’d the press go?

Begin with the offense. A half-court environment was not going to exist with Kansas jumping into a press. Everything left to right in the final, eh, two minutes was going to be a little frantic. And the Jayhakws were going to foul the Mountaineers. Interestingly, I thought this as it was happening, and Bill Self admitted it later, but Kansas probably fouled too often. It was a six-point game with 1:34 to go, and Kansas didn’t need to foul. Kansas did, and Beetle Bolden went 1-for-2. Then WVU got a stop on the charge call and Nate Adrian did a smart thing and called timeout before taking a five-seconds call.

Honestly, that should have been it. But the eventual inbound was stolen, and Frank Mason was fouled and went 2-for-2, and Kansas, without any timeouts to communicate instructions, fouled again and Tarik Phillip went 2-for-2.

OK, honestly, that should have been it.

But before and after that, there were some 47-feet moments in which the Mountaineers seemed uncertain. Bob Huggins did not think WVU froze, but he did believe his players were out of sorts.

“I don’t think we went too slow,” he said. “I think against their pressure, we didn’t look up. We had guys wide open and we didn’t throw them the ball. When there’s 2:40 left and you’re up 12 or 14, why wouldn’t you run clock?”

Self had no choice but to press, but it changed the game. The frenzy forced WVU into timeouts and repeated turnovers on inbound plays. When the ball did enter play, the Mountaineers played fast and lost control of possession and of what they’d worked so hard to attain.

“Ask our guys how often we work on the press,” Self said. “Maybe a month ago. Something like that. We actually worked on traps the other day, but not like that. Our guys stepped up and made plays.”

Allow me to call a timeout. Remember this? Read the third paragraph.

This is not an acquittal, but it is evidence to support the complexity of the game.

As for WVU’s pressure, well, once again, the Mountaineers didn’t unleash their customary pressure against Kansas. Just stayed in front and made players consume time and energy to get the ball past halfcourt and then run plays. And that was absolutely the right thing to do. The Jayhawks, if we’re being honest, stunk. They were 13-for-48 before the comeback. Now, WVU did take it easier, but at that point, the justification does make sense even if Kansas was happy to see it.

There’s an axiom in sports that says you ought to never make a decision that makes the other team happy, but I have to wonder if this instance was an exception.

WVU did drop back, though, and Huggins said he didn’t want to “turn them loose” and let Kansas get free from the press for quick scores.

“I think it was a sign of them thinking they had the game won,” Kansas guard Devonte’ Graham said. “It helped us out because we didn’t have to go against the press in the backcourt.”

But with and after all of that — and without deconstructing the final possession of regulation, when, I assure you, the plan was for Phillip to drive … because everyone was yelling, “DRIVE IT!” — the Mountaineers had the ball and a timeout with a two-point lead and 31 seconds left when Phillip made a pass I simply cannot believe he made.

If he calls timeout, WVU gets a restart on the sideline, and the four players have more floor to work with for an inbound pass. If Phillip travels or takes the five-seconds call or even commits an offensive foul, it’s a deadball turnover and Kansas has to restart on the side and find a way to get the ball to the basket. The pass ignited the crowd, and Kansas was much better off taking the ball in from the side at mid-court and letting Mason get down hill. It’s hard to do that, say, 20 feet closer to the rim and on the opposite side of the floor.

So it took an extraordinary set of circumstances to even get to that moment for Phillip, and even then, Kansas still needed one more singularly incredible moment to give the Jayhawks a chance to tie. A lot went wrong, but if WVU does just 19 things wrong instead of 20, WVU wins that game.

But WVU lost. I’ve been covering basketball since John Beilein’s first season. I’ve seen graver losses — Louisville in the 2005 Elite Eight, Texas in the 2006 Sweet 16 — so I can’t crown this game. It’s wholly different, I know, but I’m not sure this is worse than the 2015 Sweet Sixteen against Kentucky. That was a different type of embarrassment, but it was embarrassment, and it lasted an entire offseason. This reminded me a lot of the Sweet Sixteen loss to Xavier in 2008. Big lead, collapse in regulation, loss in overtime. I’ll put this above that because I think winning at Kansas means so damn much to this team.

Then again, my sentimentality is way different than yours, and I’ve not been around it for as long as many of you. Feel free to sort them out, but here my top five “Hurtful Losses.”

T5. The Ronald Ramon Pitt game in 2008
T5. 2008 Sweet Sixteen against Xavier
4. Monday
3. 2015 Sweet Sixteen against Kentucky
2. 2005 Elite Eight Louisville
1. 2006 Sweet Sixteen against Texas