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WVU basketball: Mountaineers should be able to lock up 3 seed

By Matthew Peaslee

MORGANTOWN, WV - JANUARY 15: The West Virginia Mountaineers huddle before the game against the Kansas Jayhawks at the WVU Coliseum on January 15, 2018 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)
MORGANTOWN, WV - JANUARY 15: The West Virginia Mountaineers huddle before the game against the Kansas Jayhawks at the WVU Coliseum on January 15, 2018 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images) /
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Nobody should count out the WVU basketball team in crunch time. The Mountaineers are in a good position at the end of the regular season.

With three regular season games left, the WVU basketball team should be able to win all three. Should and will are two different words but the Mountaineers, coming off a win at Baylor, seem to be in the driver’s seat of their gameplan.

The three remaining games are against Iowa State, Texas Tech and Texas. Even though ISU is at the top of the Big 12 Conference standings, the toughest game remaining looks like it will be against the Longhorns simply because it is a road game.

Saturday’s game against the Cyclones is sold out. It will be a crazy crowd on a Saturday evening providing the same excellent support the Mountaineers have received all season. By winning all three games to end the season, the WVU basketball team will have at least 23 wins for the seventh time under Bob Huggins. Prior to Huggins coming on board in 2007, the Mountaineers reached 23 wins just nine times dating all the way back to 1960.

Huggins has truly transformed the WVU basketball program and set a new standard in the process. The Mountaineers are still competing for a Big 12 title and that is still a possibility. If they fall short of that goal, the WVU basketball team should still have locked up at least a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

A conference title should get them to a No. 2 seed and if other teams keeps losing, there is an outside shot that the WVU basketball team can get an unprecedented No. 1 seed. Wherever it ends up, West Virginia has been building for this March run for a while. Guards Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles have their scoring stroke and they have proven that they will not give up in the hard times.

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Even though the end is near, there is still a lot of time left in this basketball season. It can turn out to be one of the best finishes in WVU basketball history.

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