College hoops countdown: No. 35 West Virginia (The Sporting News)

By Mike DeCourcy - Sporting News is counting down its Top 40 teams leading into the beginning of the season. For more on No. 35 West Virginia, be sure to visit Sporting News Today. More: Find your team among the 40 Come on, we all know West Virginia is going to be good. Bob Huggins has proven by now he could grab five sixth-graders he's never met and win 20 Division I games. It's difficult to get excited, though, about where that'll leave the Mountaineers at the close of this season. Don't worry about who is gone, even Darris Nichols. Huggins has won with point guards 30-percent less talented and 100-percent less reliable than Joe Mazzulla, who seems as though he was born to play for Huggins in so many ways. Closing with two terrific games in the NCAA Tournament in which he averaged 11.5 points and 6.5 assists proved Mazzulla... [read full story]                    

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