KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- West Virginia used elements of its January game plan, along with a couple of wrinkles, to hold Oklahoma's Buddy Hield to just six points in the Mountaineers' 69-67 win over the Sooners in Big 12 Championship semifinal action.
There are plans. And then there's reality. Often, in sports, the two don't mesh. Teams enter games with the former, neatly laid out by coaching staffs and buttressed with scouting reports, only to see them destroyed by talented opposing players, countering tactics, or failures in execution. But on Friday night in the Big 12 semifinals, everything clicked for West Virginia.