What Bob Huggins Said Following WVU's Win Over Penn

If the team is ready for the gauntlet that starts next week

"I don't know. I don't know how to tell. We've got a lot of work to do. We don't rebound the ball the way you need to rebound the ball. We don't rebound it defensively the way you need to and we don't rebound it offensively the way you need to. I thought we passed the ball better, which was an improvement. I thought we got it in transition a little bit better than what we have been. But offensively, we weren't sharp. We've got a lot of work to do."

What sharp looks like offensively

"We pass it better. How many did we throw out of bounds in transition? Or how many did we throw to the other team when we're trying to make a hero play? Those things we got to wipe out. There's probably been five or six times that we had transition two on one or sometimes three and one and sometimes instead of making the appropriate pass we try to throw it over the backboard so some guy can jump up and miss it."

What the team lacks

"We lack consistency at this point in time. We lack consistency on the defensive end. How many times were we standing there staring at the ball and they cut behind us for layups? That's really inexcusable."

What he expects next week

"I think the guys that we talked about earlier will be consistent. I think they'll relish the opportunity to play. The thing that you wonder about is, they [Purdue] got a guy, 7'2", 7'4", whatever he is, and we haven't seen that. That's different. He effects the game in a lot of ways. It's easy for him to score it over people. He missed a shot the one game I saw and it came off the rim and he dunked it and he didn't jump. He's not just tall, he's big. He's strong."

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