MORGANTOWN — Jasper Floyd has been on both sides of the thrill of victory and agony of defeat.

He won a junior college national championship at Northwest Florida State in 2022 and then was part of North Texas’ semifinal run in the NIT a season ago. The Mean Green fell to UC Irvine in the semifinals.

He finds himself in an altogether different situation now, taking over at point guard at West Virginia, a completely rebuilt program under first-year head coach Ross Hodge.

The odds, Floyd is told, are steep that he’ll have one final shot at competing for a college title.

He already knows why. Floyd is one 12 new scholarship players on the Mountaineers’ roster, with only two of those 12 having any type of experience playing at the Power Five Conference level.

This is only Hodge’s third sea

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