MORGANTOWN — There will be better nights for Ross Hodge and his West Virginia basketball team that debuted at the Hope Coliseum on Tuesday night with an inconsistent offensive performance, but somehow to stand there and sing "Country Roads" with an appreciative home crowd for the first time will the lasting takeaway for them.

As it ended, the scoreboard showed them on the right side of a 70-54 score, probably because the triumvirate of Hodge and the two players he brought with him from North Texas as he became WVU's fourth coach in four years made the difference. kAm$6?:@C y2DA6C u=@J5[ E96 A@:?E 8F2C5[ H2D E96 :8?:E@C[ D4@C:?8 ad A@:?ED @? h 7@C `b D9@@E:?8 H:E9 c 2DD:DED H9:=6 =625:?8 E96 H2J H9:=6 9:D A2CE?6C qC6?6? {@C:6?E 925 9:>D6=7 2 5@F3=6\5@F3=6 H:E9 `` A@:?ED 2?5 `b C63@F?5D]k^

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