COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — At one juncture this season, the kid endured a 24-day stretch without making a basket. In this week’s previous game, his only field goal was a banked-in 3 that even had Iowa State defenders giggling.
So you’ll forgive the West Virginia coaching staff for not prioritizing Brandon Knapper early in Saturday’s game against Oklahoma. He sat for the first 7 minutes, in fact.
By the end of the afternoon, though, Knapper was so cocksure that coach Bob Huggins was diagramming plays for him.
Leading 65-63 with 1:58 left, Huggins spent a timeout setting up Knapper for a corner 3.