If there ever were a player built for the Big East, it's forward-guard Aaron Brown, who committed to WVU several days ago. But it's what beats in his chest that counts for Bob Huggins when he joins the program in 2011-12. After all, the league is basketball's version of the old NFL black-and-blue division.

The heart is what assistant coach Billy Hahn fell in love with: the kid got bounced around as a kid and lived to tell about it.

"Lived" is the operable word because as a 9-year-old, the now 6-foot-5, 200- pound 2011 prospect from Darby, Pa., came close to the other option.

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