What Josh Eilert Said Following the loss to Ohio State

West Virginia University head coach Josh Eilert Ohio State postgame quick hits

The West Virginia Mountaineers (5-8) fell to the Ohio State Buckeyes (11-2) Saturday night 78-75 in the Legends of Basketball Showcase at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

Opening statement 

I challenged those guys in that first half, you know, I think we got down rebounding margin minus 13 at one point and ended the game down one. [I] keep preaching rebounding and it's going to be critical for us down the stretch especially playing without a center and trying to manage as best we can with lack of depth forward. We turned the ball over early and we're sloppy and couldn't rebound and changed the defense on them and made it a back and forth battle but we'll probably look back at the film and probably see several things that we can correct and kick ourselves for not correcting them in game but regardless it was a game of inches and a possession to possession game you just got to find a way to catch a break down the stretch.

The team's resiliency coming back from a 14-point deficit

At the end of the day, we're five and eight. We went through a heck of a lot of challenges to get to this point. But we're getting closer and closer to full strength. We're a few weeks away from having (Senior center) Jesse (Edwards) back and being more balanced.

These guys have incredible amount of resilience, a lot of fight by no means, our staff or the mantra within our program, we are never going to quit or lay down, continue to battle each and every possession and hopefully things start to fall our direction, especially down the stretch, they didn't really follow our direction anyway. 

Team + Individual Stats vs. Ohio State

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