Even though his playing days with the West Virginia basketball team are now long over, he still looks proudly back on his time spent in Morgantown.
“When I was going through the whole recruiting process I remember (former Beilein staffer) Bill Lilly was at Radford for a long time and when he went over with Beilein I had a relationship with him. He told me if I played basketball at West Virginia University they will remember you forever,” Nichols told WVUsports.com “I’m in high school and I’m not thinking anything of it, so I play four years there and then I come back for a football game and I’m walking around and I can’t go from one tailgate to the next without people coming up to me speaking to me.