Deniz Kilicli, who has started 12 games for West Virginia, prefers to come off the bench.

“Every time I start, they’re [officials] just looking at me because I’m European, because I’m 6-9, because I’m whatever,” says Kilicli.

“They always look at me and I get travel, fouls called in the first two minutes of the game, so I told [Huggins], ‘What do you think if I just come off the bench?’ And he was like, ‘If that’s how you feel comfortable, that’s completely fine with me.’ So I’m going to come off the bench probably the rest of the year.”