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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Sometimes, basketball grants the perfect marriage of program and player — the type of guys that could probably succeed anywhere, but you can only picture them in one place.

West Virginia has seen phenomenon this before.

Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles were custom-fit Mountaineers, and a decade before that one would be hard-pressed to find a better avatar for West Virginia basketball at the time than Kevin Pittsnoggle.

There have been others, of course, but the point is it takes a certain type to fit that mold.