Here in hoopieland, the biggest news in recent weeks is the not-entirely-understood dismissal of WVU’s top scorer, Drew Schifino. Until a couple weeks ago, all seemed well with Schifino — he’d received the usual glowing articles in the local paper; everyone testified about what a great kid he was. Then, suddenly, he was off the team, a couple days after making some give-me-the-damn-ball type comments to the media. The Morgantown Dominion-Post seemed to lean toward Schifino in their coverage, hinting that Coach John Beilein had perhaps prematurely terminated Schifino because he was a hold-over from the previous coach’s era. Whatever the case, the Mountaineers have since dropped two in a row, to Virginia Tech and Providence.

I, of course, immediately wondered if Schifino, a Pittsburgh guy, would transfer to Pitt. And would Pitt want a kid who was kicked off another team, a kid they didn’t recruit? On the other hand, Schifino was averaging 20.1 points per game this season and had scored in the double digits in a NCAA-record 48 consecutive games before his streak came to an end in a loss to Notre Dame earlier this month. (That was when he told reporters that he wasn’t getting the ball enough under Beilein.)

Last week, Schifino told the Post-Gazette that he has “always wanted to play for Pitt.” The Dominion-Post is not clear on whether or not such a transfer would be easy, according to NCAA rules.