MORGANTOWN -- The search is over. The press conference is over. The question now: How will Ross Hodge begin to rebuild the WVU men’s basketball team? We’ll tell you how he’s going to do it. Step 1, resist temptation. Think of it from Hodge’s perspective. He’s still a young ...
MORGANTOWN -- Ross Hodge’s tenure as WVU men’s basketball coach will basically begin the same way as Darian DeVries’ did — with a five-year deal worth $15 million. Hodge’s contract details were released Friday to The Dominion Post through a Freedom of Information ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Grant McCasland on the other end of Wren Baker’s phone call. And McCasland barely gave WVU’s athletic director a moment to speak before chiming in his two cents. “Ross freaking Hodge,” Baker recalled McCasland’s words on ...
MORGANTOWN -- The perfect compliment that could be made to a basketball team coached by Ross Hodge would be more about grit than glamour, toughness over style points. Hodge was officially introduced Thursday morning as West Virginia’s 24th men’s basketball coach, something the 44-year ...
MORGANTOWN -- TV sets throughout West Virginia were tuned in to ESPN’s coverage of the NIT semifinals Tuesday night for a glimpse of the future. What we saw of, now, WVU men’s basketball coach Ross Hodge was a swarming defense that guided North Texas to a 15-4 lead over the first nine ...
MORGANTOWN -- No fancy lead-ins today, because, well, I think we’d all like to get straight into the bottom line. So here goes, Darian DeVries’ hiring at Indiana was announced on the afternoon of March 18. On March 19, was Ross Hodge the No. 1 candidate on WVU athletic director Wren ...