MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Five returners, seven newcomers and a player that could fall into both categories have gathered in Morgantown as the WVU men’s basketball team continues their roster reconstruction for the 2022-2023 season.
Individual and team workouts are held throughout the summer months. Associate head coach Larry Harrison says the new Mountaineers have heeded the call of the coaches to become well-acquainted to their new surroundings at the practice facility.
“You guys heard Coach Huggins talk quite a bit last year about guys being in the gym and guys working on their games to get better. At nine or ten o’clock at night on any given night, you might find five or six guys in the gym working on their game. I think we really recruited guys that want to get better and are really putting in the time,” Harrison said on Citynet Statewide Sportsline.
“The returning guys — the four freshmen and Keedy [Johnson] — they are kind of like, when we are doing drills or when we are transitioning from one side of the floor to the other, they are setting the tone as far as what needs to be done. The new guys, even though the majority of them are older, they are still trying to figure out what we are doing and how we do it.”
Four freshmen and fifth-year senior Kedrian Johnson are the only players to return from last year’s squad. Seth Wilson [20…
