MORGANTOWN -- Brenen Lorient pulled off the ultimate double-take Sunday. Or maybe it was simply the 6-foot-9 forward adding more to his game to force West Virginia’s future opponents to spend more time on scouting reports. In any case, Lorient was already the Mountaineers’ leading ...
MORGANTOWN -- If nothing else, Ross Hodge knows how to keep things interesting in these normally ho-hum days of November in college basketball. “We’ve played 80 minutes of basketball, and we’ve led for, like, 79 minutes,” the WVU men’s head coach said Thursday, after the ...
MORGANTOWN -- At some point, as the story goes, Brenen Lorient goes up to Jasper Floyd before tipoff and lets his teammate in on a little secret. “He tells me everyday prior to the game that he’s going to crash as hard as he can,” Floyd said. “That’s not even, like, you’re not ...
MORGANTOWN -- Apparently there is a story about Jasper Floyd looking good on opening night. That’s the good news for the West Virginia men’s basketball team, which pulled away late Tuesday for a 70-54 victory over Mount St. Mary’s inside the Hope Coliseum in Ross Hodge’s first win ...
MORGANTOWN -- There are no crystal balls – just basketballs, as it turns out, – to determine how Ross Hodge will fare as the WVU men’s hoops coach. As the situation currently stands, he will be the third coach in as many years to make his Power Conference debut with the Mountaineers ...
MORGANTOWN -- Ross Hodge was presented with the other side of the coin Sunday. It’s a side the first-year WVU men’s basketball coach hopes he doesn’t have to deal with too much. “I know we’re not going to hit 20 threes every game,” he said following the Mountaineers’ 80-54 ...