West Virginia head coach Ross Hodge is forced to largely rebuild the Mountaineers basketball roster and the transfer portal will play a role in that.
This is a collection of players that have either been contacted or have ties to Hodge.
Edwards started his career at Miles College where he redshirted before moving onto Dodge City C.C. where he was a NJCAA first team All-American and the 2023 Kansas Jayhawk Conference Player of the Year after averaging 21.9 points per game and shot 53-percent from the field and 41-percent from three. Then transferred to North Texas where he played under Hodge and was a first-team all-American Athletic Conference selection averaging 19.1 points per game and knocked down 81-three pointers, the sixth most in school history for a single season. Edwards elected to transfer yet again to Vanderbilt where he averaged 17 points and 2.0 rebounds per game while hitting 43-percent of his shots and 35-percent from three earning third-team all SEC honors. Edwards entered the transfer portal yet again and will be an interesting target.
A West Virginia native and the two-time Player of the Year in the state, McKneely has spent three seasons at Virginia where he has improved in every campaign. After averaging 6.6 points per game as a freshman that number has climbed to 12.3 and 14.4 this past season. A strong shooter, McKneely has shot 42-percent from the field over his career and an impressive 42-percent from three. Was a target of West Virginia during his initial recruitment and the Mountaineers will get another crack after he elected to enter the transfer portal with one season remaining.
Conerway started his career at Grayson College and then moved to Ranger College where he was the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Men’s Player of the Year in the JUCO division and NJCAA D-1 Men’s Basketball All-American First Team after averaging 15.7 points per game on 48.4 percent shooting from the field and 34.4 percent from three. Conerway has spent the past two years at Troy where he averaged 11.8 points in his first year before that jumped to 14.0 in his second along with 4.8 assists and 4.6 rebounds while shooting 47-percent and 27-percent from three.
Moore started his career at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M where he was an NJCAA D-I All-American after averaging 21.3 points and 5.2 assists per game. Moore then spent two years at Murray State where averaged 8.2 points, 1.7 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game in year one and 9.2 points and 1.6 rebounds per game in year two. The New York native spent last season at Norfolk State where he started all 28 games and ...
