Ross Hodge Stays Optimistic About ‘Opportunities’ for WVU Basketball

“Opportunity” has been a consistent theme for WVU basketball head coach Ross Hodge when discussing the team’s chances to be of March Madness this season. After allowing TCU to come back in a 60-54 loss Saturday, his message remained the same.

“I think I told our team, the beauty of being in the Big 12 is you’re going to get quality opportunities,” Hodge said in the postgame press conference.

“You had one today, we didn’t take advantage of it. More opportunities are, are still in our grasp and in our reach, but eventually you have to take advantage of the opportunities and did feel like we had an opportunity today to get one and, and we weren’t able to do that today.”

Despite the optimism, Hodge is still in touch with the reality that opportunities can run out. As the team currently sits at No. 9 in the Big 12 standings, No. 59 in Kenpom and among the “next four out” in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology, WVU still needs to win games in order to play in March.

“But more opportunities are on the way. Obviously, Tuesday night in Stillwater will be another opportunity. Have a home game against BYU on Saturday and so you have opportunities, but you gotta start taking advantage of them because eventually your opportunities can run out,” Hodge said.

WVU basketball will take the court again at 7 p.m. on Tuesday when the team battles Oklahoma State on the road.

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