What Josh Eilert Said Following the OT Loss to Kansas State

The West Virginia Mountaineers (9-19, 4-11) fell in overtime to the Kansas State Wildcats (17-11, 7-8) Monday night 94-90.

Interim head coach Josh Eilert sat with play-by-play caller Tony Caridi and gave some insight on the overtime loss to the Wildcats.

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Opening Statement

I questioned them and I really got after them at halftime. We can’t dig ourselves a hole like that and their guys were just backing us down and backing us down, getting the two footer and we weren't getting the hand up on shooters, getting the shooters, we couldn't get a rebound. I mean, nothing was going right. We had to throw our gameplan out pretty quick there in the first half. I challenged them and they responded to the second half and give them all the credit in the world for giving me that effort. So, it's disappointing. Very disappointing to come in here and be that close, you're, one bounce away or your one call away, a timely call, count and 10,15 different situations. And we had somebody looks right at the rim too that we left on the table that really hurts when you back and look at it.

Coming back down 25

We just got to get to the point where we're consistent. We get that consistent effort from the jump. Yeah, teams are going to go on some runs and it's going to go one way or the other, but we got to be able to understand when we can stop the bleeding and that effort wasn't there. I felt like the energy and effort wasn't there at shoot around and carried over into the game and it took too long to turn the tables and in that regard.

Center Jesse Edwards' off night

He's very capable. He's just got to get that balance and get the head up on the rim and sometimes he's rushing things, not even shooting it on the turn when he's got to get his balance and composure down there.

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