West Virginia recently announced Ross Hodge as the next head coach of the basketball program. He inherits a roster that features only a handful of names, as the team heads for a total reset for the second straight year.
The Mountaineers roster currently only consists of three names: Ofri Naveh, who was the only guy that remained last year from the previous Joh Eilert team the year before, center Haris Elezovich, and Abraham Oyeadier. The team has suffered losses to the roster, including Jonathan Powell, Sencire Harris, Amani Hansberry, Tucker DeVries, and K.J Tenner, not to mention the whole recruiting class that featured four-star Kelvin Odih and Braydon Hawthorne before Hodge was announced as the new coach.
The transfer portal opened a week ago and the Mountaineers got a late start on that after not hiring Hodge for a few days after it opened, with that being said the team will have to play catchup to make sure that they repeat the success next season. They currently have yet to secure a player from the transfer portal but will have time once the NCAA tournament concludes and everything comes to fruition with the guys in the portal.
It’s going to be a tough time for Hodge in the coming months, not only does he have to rebuild an entire team, but he will also have to hire his coaching staff. This will be the second consecutive season WVU faces an entire reset in the roster, similar to how they started last year when DeVries was announced as the coach after Josh Eilert.
Ross Hodge is well known around the country as a good recruiter, so it will be interesting to see what he can do to rebuild this roster and try and continue to build off the success of the team this past year.
