MORGANTOWN — Want to know how a head coach of a basketball team that just won by 42 points can still have a tough go of it?

You schedule the team that is ranked 364th in the country – out of 365 Division I schools – in the Ken Pomeroy Ratings for a home game a week after Thanksgiving and then fall behind that team 9-2 early and struggle for an entire half.

That was WVU head coach Ross Hodge’s story Wednesday night, as the Mountaineers – a 31.5-point favorite going into the game – pulled away in the second half for a 91-49 victory inside the Hope Coliseum.

“He was fired up, for sure,” said WVU forward Chance Moore of Hodge at halftime. “He was holding us accountable. He knows that we’re better than what we played in that first half. He challenged us to go get better out there and to go o

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