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Column: Leadership void has Mountaineers in freefall

COMMENTARY

FORT WORTH, Texas — While the rest of the Mountain State simply would like to experience a Big 12 win, West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins would like to see something else from his players:

Leadership.

Up to this point, this season has been spent trying to break down some numbers that helped explain this or that.

Numbers that pointed to a lack of defense or a lack of offense or a lack of defensive pressure or a lack of a 3-point presence or ……

That’s the thing about basketball, there are enough numbers in the game that could literally explain hundreds of things that go along with bouncing an orange ball and shooting it at a rim.