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Article: WEST VIRGINIA BASKETBALL: ; Mountaineers settling in behind Big East's elite
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- February 6, 2009
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MORGANTOWN - Bob Huggins had a pretty simple way of breaking down
the Big East Conference the other night when someone asked him where
he thought his team fit into the mix.
"Well, it looks like there's four teams and then the rest of us,"
the West Virginia coach said. "I'd probably say we're in 'the rest
of us."'
Indeed, for all of the talk of the strength and even the balance -
at least in the upper half - of the Big East, so far pretty much
everyone has gone through rough patches. Everyone, that is, save for
what has emerged as the big four: No. 1 Connecticut, No. 5
Louisville, No. 6 Pitt and No. 8 Marquette.
How clearly better have those teams been? Well, their positions
filling half the ...