WVU Basketball in Unique Situation College Basketball Hasn’t Seen

WVU Basketball once again just can’t have a normal month in 2023.

After what seemed like the longest offseason in college basketball history, WVU interim HC Josh Eilert and the team are still dealing with offseason-type situations. On top of that, the team is 4-5 and has shown signs of rock bottom. West Virginia is not a good team right now and is currently looking at a long season in the Big 12. They do have a very unique situation that has not been seen before in college basketball, which could possibly turn the season around if it’s not too late.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a college basketball team struggle out of the gate, under .500 in December, while continually adding back starting caliber players to games. At the beginning of the season West Virginia was left with just eight scholarship players eligible to play. Now this was all out of Eilert’s control when he took over in June, except when he parted ways with Jose Perez in late September. That’s the critical off-the-court decision Eilert made that was a bad one since it turned out WVU needed bodies. Up until the Pitt game, that’s what Eilert and his staff had to work with. Tough situation but that group couldn’t get anything going consistently. West Virginia had a terrible loss to Monmouth at home, letting Xander Rice do whatever he pleased in Morgantown. WVU played Virginia and St. John’s close but bad second halves against SMU and Pitt have resulted in more early losses.

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