Plenty more to come today, the second media day at this site, with Notre Dame availability beginning at 1:35 p.m. and West Virginia following at 2:20 p.m. The shootaround is closed, so I hope you’ve had your fix of sweet Beetle Bolden dunks. The actual game Saturday will tip at 12:10 p.m. Saturday on CBS.

The Mountaineers hit many and maybe most of their marks last night, even if defense was at times lacking and the 1-3-1 merely succeeded it slowing Bucknell as it closed by shooting 7-for-14 from the floor. Good signs in various areas, and you do have to tip your cap to the Bison and how they played in the second half after the wind left their sails at the end of the first half.

But enough of that. As I said, more to come later. It’s transcript time.

The winners: Nate Adrian, Tarik Phillip, Elijah Macon and Bob Huggins.

Q. First, Bob, just a couple questions. First, what did you think was most troublesome that Bucknell was doing and, second, could you comment on Tarik and what he did today?
BOB HUGGINS: What Bucknell did was make shots. They don’t always, you know, nobody does, always make shots that well. McKenzie’s 5 for 7 from three and Steven Brown hit some big threes. Seemed like every time we started to get away from them a little bit, they made a three. And like the guys said, Foulland is really a good player. He’s a really good player in any league. He’s athletic, and not just at the offensive end, he changed so many shots. He really disrupted us, I think, offensively, with the shot-blocking ability.

The defeated: Kimbal MacKenzie, Stephen Brown, Zach Thomas and Nate Davis. (By the way, all three of them, plus Nana Foulland and 78 of the 80 points scored are back next season. Good luck, Patriot League!)

Q. For Stephen. The vast majority of you will be back next year. What do you think might help you guys as a program moving toward?
ZACH THOMAS: I feel like we know — if we do get back here next year, we know what to expect. Everything was new to us, nearly everything. We know what to expect and we know the caliber of the teams we’re going to play, especially West Virginia today. So, I think we are more well-prepared, and we just have to, you know, do some of the same things to get us ready.

STEPHEN BROWN: Yeah. I mean it was a great experience for a group such as us. Just using this as fuel to come back next year and, from beginning to end to just fight every single game and every single practice. Now that we have a goal to come back, and get a win in the first round, I think we can use this and it’s much of a confidence boost for all of the guys returning back next year.