We haven’t said it in a while but — all together now — Mike Carey’s a really good coach. He lost much of his rotation to season-ending injuries before the season ever started, but there goes West Virginia into the finals of the Big 12 tournament. The Mountaineers were probably on the NCAA tournament bubble when they landed in Oklahoma City. After wins against ranked Oklahoma (easy) and Texas (hard), they’re definitely in and perhaps also menacing.

Tonight’s game against the second-ranked Bears will begin at 9 p.m. on Fox Sports 1. WVU has one win against Baylor since joining the Big 12, and a seven-game losing streak in the series hasn’t been entirely embarrassing. The two went to the wire in the championship game in 2014, and WVU played quite well at the Ferrell Center in January. Baylor has won the last six Big 12 titles, but maybe Carey gets his biggest moment yet and another postgame news conference.