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Published May 3, 2020
West Virginia basketball returning bigs give reasons for excitement
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Keenan Cummings  •  WVSports
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Oscar Tshiebwe has made his decision and will return to West Virginia for a sophomore season.

That means that the Mountaineers front-court should be in-tact for a second season with Tshiebwe running alongside junior Derek Culver in the post. That is on top of seven other players returning from last year’s team and a trio of high-profile recruits to give the Mountaineers a lot of reasons to be excited.

It’s early and there still is a recruiting spot to fill if head coach Bob Huggins chooses to do so but the Mountaineers are being listed in almost every pre-season poll at this stage with some toward the higher end of those rankings. That is certainly a good start.

But what does this mean for a team that is coming off a 21-10 season even with the youth?

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