Young is going to be in the NBA next year and ESPN televises NBA games. They have a financial interest in over-promoting any college player that it likely to end up in the NBA. In other words, they use coverage of the WVU-OU game to promote their NBA telecasts for next season.
It's like during a WVU game on ESPN last season (I forget which one) where in the middle of the game...during game action...they had a one-on-one conversation with an ESPN announcer and some guy back in the studio about an upcoming game on ESPN. The ESPN announcer played at School X, the guy back at the ESPN studio played at School Y and School X and School Y were playing later on ESPN and they did a five minute promo for the game while WVU was playing. The WVU game was in a small box off to the side during that time.
Can anyone remember what game that was and what game they were promoting? I'd like to remember the details of that.