MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Seven months and one day after he was formally introduced as the fourth head coach in as many seasons for West Virginia’s men’s basketball program, Ross Hodge is set to guide WVU in its first meaningful action of the 2025-26 campaign at 7 p.m. Tuesday against Mount St. Mary’s in a matchup of Mountaineers inside the recently renamed Hope Coliseum.

Hodge spent the first few of those seven months working diligently to fill out the roster and coaching staff at West Virginia, and is eager to see the team’s progress from the offseason and preseason on display.

“I haven’t thought a ton about that or what it could mean or what it doesn’t mean,” Hodge said of his first game as head coach of a Power Conference program. “I know the quote you never get a second chance to make a f

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