Based on last night's game, WVU has a lot to prove to me that they can win the championship... I don't think it is so cut and dry now. The Kentucky-WVU was the worst game I watched this season. For the reasons below...
1) Officiating - When I heard Jamie Luckie (ACC ref - I have to deal with him/staff during our games all season), I knew this would be bad. Granted though his staff is known for calling everything... this game it seemed nothing was called between Kentucky's blatant back court volation or WVU's constant illegal screens or Cousin's elbows.
2) WVU lack of Offense - give some credit to Kentucky but mostly WVU couldn't buy even open shots inside the 3 point line.
3) Coaching - Let's start with Kentucky - Cousins had Mazzola (smallest guy on the court) guarding him the majority of the game, yet Kentucky never exploited this mismatch... and when they did, he drop elbows into him. On top of that, they were fine with Patterson shooting threes... ya... terrible coaching. Now for WVU... I never understood why the team felt to drop the smallest guys to guards the bigs down low. For this game, it seemed to work because of the lack of Calabrini to exploit the mismatches.
4) This game was just plain awkard. WVU gets on fire from 3pt line (which isn't what they normally do) and UK goes ice cold from 3pt line.