Mountaineers' Success has Its Roots in the Days of West, Thorn, Hundley

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They don't have a ritual like the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who burn up the phone lines every year when an NFL team remains undefeated deep into the season.

But for the past two springs, anyway, Nets General Manager Rod Thorn, Memphis Grizzlies President Jerry West and Utah Jazz announcer (Hot) Rod Hundley have had something else that knits them together come NCAA basketball tournament time, as only the NCAA tournament can.

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Mountaineers' Success has Its Roots in the Days of West, Thorn, Hundley

Before they all went on to notable successes in the NBA, Hundley, West and Thorn were West Virginia-born and West Virginia-raised.

Much like their far more romanticized schoolboy basketball counterparts in Indiana and Kentuck...

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