COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Between the uncontested dunks and the unexplained dismissals, West Virginia’s week of basketball has been weak even by this season’s woebegone standards.
A team that started No. 13 in the AP preseason poll now flounders at No. 10 in the Big 12 standings, a precipitous freefall that has fans checking out. Boos became unmistakable during the most recent 22-point loss, when WVU folded up in the second half and made an average Texas team look like Phi Slamma Jamma.
As if a 2-9 league record didn’t tell us enough about the void of chemistry and leadership, news that surfaced 48 hours later, in which Esa Ahmad and Wesley Harris were booted off the team, confirmed the rock-bottom status.