[shortsleeve47]

Knock-down, tough-guy Mountaineers

"You remember the movie Full Metal Jacket?" Davis asked. "Toward the end of boot camp at Parris Island where they're running in the mud in slow motion?"
Yeah, but what does it have to do with West Virginia basketball?
"They're killers now," Davis said. "They've kind of become that, you know?"

The Mountaineers' transformation from hug-it-out Beileins to bone-crushing Hugginses hasn't been quite that drastic, but the message has gotten across.

"Coach Beilein was a teach-first, yell-second guy," Mazzulla said. "Coach Huggins is yell first and second and teach third. He'll yell at you all day and he'll do a great job teaching you."

The Killers now have a genuine personality. Man-to-man defense is a given. It's in Huggins' DNA.
Alexander has blossomed into an All-Big East physical presence who had a double-double against Duke. Mazzulla came up two assists shy of a triple-double against the Blue Devils. Guard Alex Ruoff has led the Mountaineers in tournament scoring (19 per game) after averaging less than 14 during the regular season.

The legacy Huggins is building is growing by the day.

Huggins' infamous treadmill became a staple. Players accused of some practice mistake have to run at 15 mph for about 45 seconds.

"I understand to make a good story, there's got to be white hats and black hats," he (Huggins)said. "Otherwise we never would have a cowboy movie."

That cowboy movie, for Huggins, was played out in 1992. There were three "bluebloods", as he called them -- Indiana, Duke and Michigan -- in the Final Four along with the black-hatted Bearcats.

Here come the Mountainneers!!!

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10740554/1

[Lefty Noob]

I happy for the kids that they're winning, but I still don't like Bob Huggins much.