WVU men's basketball did not measure up to head coach Ross Hodge's standards on Saturday, but the only person he seems to be blaming is himself.
The Mountaineers dropped a 75-66 loss to Wake Forest at the Charleston Coliseum on Saturday, which marked their third straight loss to a Power 5 opponent. The Mountaineers put forth an anemic offensive performance for most of the game and set a season-high for turnovers with 18, and he after the game, he was quite honest about what he thought his team;s shortcomings were.
“You can’t give up 41 points in the second half and turn it over and miss shots and miss free throws. You can’t do all of that. You can actually do one or the other and that’s just something that I think we’ve gotta continue to learn and grow from," Hodge said after the loss.
“Are you doing what we’re asking you to do hard enough? That’s where you usually start. And then I think the next part in the checklist is like, okay, then you change personnel to see if the personnel can do what you’re asking them to do…if you’re doing it hard enough and you’re trying it with different people and it’s still not working, then maybe you’ve gotta try to do something else,” Hodge said.
And that final section of his response brought Hodge to his main point after the game, and that is that he needs to find a solution to the problem WVU seems to be facing, and that the blame should fall on him and no one else within the program.
“I got to do a better job. it’s easy to point the finger at at the players, it’s easy to blame them, but I got to take accountability too and I’ve gotta do a better job of putting these guys in better positions again, where they can play to their strengths and try to try to keep them away from having to play to some of their weaknesses,” Hodge said.