Tracking the Spring Roster Moves for WVU Basketball

WVU basketball will have an entirely different look next season, as every member of the roster and coaching staff will be new. The Mountaineers lost every player on its roster to either graduation or the transfer portal, giving new head coach Ross Hodge the task of building a team through the transfer portal and through the high school ranks.

Here are all the roster moves Hodge and WVU basketball have made this spring:

Transfer Portal

Harlan Obioha (UNC Wilmington), C

Obioha averaged 9.2 points and 6.0 rebounds in his lone season at UNCW. He played in 35 games and made 23 starts. He also blocked 42 shots.

Obioha had five double-doubles this year and set season highs with 23 points against William & Mary, 13 rebounds against Towson and five blocks against East Carolina.

Brenen Lorient (North Texas), G

Lorient averaged 11.9 points and 4.9 rebounds per game as a junior this season. He was voted first-team All-AAC and was the American Athletic Conference Sixth Man of the Year.

He came off the bench in all 36 games during his lone season with the Mean Greene. He spent the first two years of his career playing a minor role at Florida Atlantic. The Florida native shot 57.1% from the floor and averaged better than a block per game at UNT.

Honor Huff (Chattanooga), G

Huff averaged 15.2 points per game while leading the country with 131 three-pointers. He shot 42.4% from the floor and 41.6% from range. He earned All-Southern Conference first-team honors.

Huff helped Chattanooga go 29-9 this season and win the NIT championship. In the final against UC Irvine, Huff scored 14 points despite shooting just 3-of-13 from the field and 3-of-11 from three.

Jackson Fields (Troy), F

Fields, a native Texan, played three seasons at Troy and will have one year of eligibility remaining. He’s played in 95 career games and made 60 total starts.

He started all but one of Troy’s 34 games this past season, shooting 47.5% from the floor and 33.3% from three. Fields has averaged 6.0 points and 3.9 rebounds in his career.

Jasper Floyd (North Texas), G

Floyd (6-foot-3) started all 36 games for UNT last season and averaged 9.0 points, 3.9 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game. He was a capable shooter, shooting 34.3% from range and 42.2% overall.

The Florida native played his best for UNT in the postseason, as five of his 12 double-digit scoring outputs came in tournament play. He averaged 14.7 points in North Texas’s run in the NIT.

Chance Moore, (St. Bonaventure), G

Moore (6-6) played just one season at St. Bonaventure after transferring from Missouri State. He started 32 games with the BOnnies, averaging 13.2 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.3 steals per game.

He spent the previous two seasons at Missouri State, averaging 10.7 points across 62 games. Moore began his career at Arkansas in 2021-22, where he only appeared in five games.

Treysen Eaglestaff (North Dakota), G

Eaglestaff initially committed to transfer to South Carolina on March 30, but then quickly decided to re-open his recruitment. The 6-foot-6, 190-pound guard averaged 18.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists this year North Dakota during the 2024-25 season.

In fact, he scored over 1,300 total points and made 221 three-pointers throughout his three-year career at North Dakota. Eaglestaff owns a career shooting percentage of 41.6% from the field and 37.1% from three.

Morris Ugusuk (South Carolina), G

Ugusuk (6-4) played in 62 total games across his two years with the Gamecocks, making six starts this past season. He averaged 2.2 points per game in a limited role as a freshman and 5.9 points in over 22 minutes per game this season.

Ugusuk showcased an ability to shoot this season, making 46 three-pointers at a 40.7% rate. He shot 38.4% from the field overall to go along with 1.4 rebounds per game.

High School

DJ Thomas, F

Thomas, a 6-7 forward from Allen, Tx., had signed at North Texas, but will follow former UNT coach Ross Hodge to WVU basketball. His coach at Allen High School, Chris Blakeley, spent two years on Hodge’s staff at North Texas.

Thomas is rated as a three-star prospect and the 27th-best player in Texas by 247Sports. He is unranked by Rivals and ESPN. Along with North Texas, Thomas also held offers from Holy Cross, Oral Roberts and Rice.

Jayden Forsythe, G

Forsythe is a former Xavier signee who reopened his recruitment when former coach Sean Miller accepted the Texas job on March 25. New WVU basketball coach Ross Hodge jumped into a competitive battle for Forsythe, ultimately beating out the likes of Wake Forest, Butler, Northwestern and Virginia Tech.

Lauded as one of the best shooters in the 2025 recruiting class, Forsythe averaged 9.5 points while shooting 38.5% from three on his AAU team last summer.

Out

Out of eligibility: Eduardo Andre, Joseph Yesufu, Toby Okani, Jake Auer, Javon Small.

Transfer Portal: Dylan Jay (TBD), KJ Tenner (Murray State), Aden Tagaloa-Nelson (Eastern Kentucky, football), Ofri Naveh (TBD), Sencire Harris (Cincinnati), Jonathan Powell (North Carolina), Tucker DeVries (Indiana), Amani Hansberry (Virginia Tech), Jayden Stone (Missouri), Abraham Oyeadier (TBD), Haris Elezovic (TBD).

Decommit: Braydon Hawthorne (TBD), Kelvin Odih (St. John’s), Trent MacLean (Saint Mary’s).