West Virginia's Jesse Edwards.

MORGANTOWN — If it weren’t for bad luck, West Virginia’s men’s basketball team would have no luck at all.

Just when they thought they were getting a break with the NCAA ruling RaeQuan Battle eligible to play out the year, it turned out that the break they got on Saturday in Springfield, Mass., was a bad one to the wrist of Jesse Edwards.

Edwards, who was bounced around underneath all night by UMass’s two big men, Josh Cohen and Matt Cross, yet never got to take a free throw, left the game in the second half after taking his last of many trips to the floor.

He left the game holding his left wrist and while he returned briefly, it was obvious he couldn’t continue.

Word came down on Monday that the senior forward transfer from Syracuse had suffered a fractured wrist and will undergo surgery. It’s expected to keep him out of action for about a month.

Edwards is averaging 14.8 points and 8.7 points a game.

Add it to a list of inexplainable incidents that have turned what once seemed to be headed for a big time season into a developing disaster.

It started with Coach Bob Huggins two transgressions, once for uttering homophobic language on a Cincinnati radio show, then for DUI arrest — charges later were dismissed — in Pittsburgh.

Between the two, he lost his job after 16 years as head coach at his alma mater, apparently ending a Hall of Fame career.

Then came defections to the transfer portal that ripped the roster he had recruited apart, followed by the hiring of interim coach Josh Eilert.

Along the way there were battles with the NCAA, which turned down waivers of the undergraduate two-school transfer rules for Jose Perez, Silverio Martinez and RaeQuan Battle.

As the season was starting, now with point guard Kerr Kriisa serving a nine-game suspension for accepting unapproved benefits while at Arizona, starting forward Akok Akok collapsed on the Coliseum court in the midst of an exhibition game against George Mason.

He was carted off the court and taken to the hospital, where he underwent tests and was out of action for the first seven games of the year.

Even when the NCAA caved in and granted eligibility for the spring semester to Battle amid more than 175 other two-term transfers, his debut was delayed by flu-like symptoms in the game that Edwards was injured.

No word on how Eilert will work out his lineup problems or if Battle will be available for Wednesday’s home game against Radford. There is a previously scheduled press conference with Eilert on Tuesday morning.