West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball

But, like, in theory, like, you know, Indiana should have the better coach.

I know that people aren't, like, super high on DeBrie right now because they missed the tournament last year, and then they missed it West Virginia.

But, like, he was really good at Drake.

And, like, it wasn't, like, all because, like, you know, his son was, like, this super talented player for the Missouri Valley.

Hello and welcome to Country Roads Confidential.

I'm your host, Chris Anderson, publisher of earsports.com, the West Virginia site on the 24-7 sports slash CBS sports slash whoever the government is allowing us to merger with these days.

Today we are here, it's Tuesday, and that means we're talking anything but football.

At least this morning, because at noon we talk football with Rich Rodriguez and players and coaches.

But this morning I got Andrew Corbett in here today because on Monday, West Virginia University's men's basketball head coach Ross Hodge, point guard Miles Sadler, potential point guard Martin Somerville.

We'll talk about that in a second.

All met with the media and practice was open.

Well, I don't know about doubts.

So he'll be here at the top of the hour.

But in an hour or so, we'll hear some of Ross Hodge's comments about WVU basketball.

Now, though, let's swing it

out to the West Coast and get Kristen Bird on the line for some breaking news in the world of entertainment and the Hollywood dirt.

And for our good friend Ryan, that's at Moneyline underscore Max, spelled M-A-C.

Also does a great job with the Ryan Rush Show for West Virginia Athletics.

And it's always a pleasure, Ryan.

Thank you.

I think my Mountaineers are probably the next team to kind of jump into maybe that tier two, right below kind of the premier contenders year and a year out under Ross Hodge year two.

Yep, no question about it.

We would love to see those fifth-year guys become eligible for West Virginia as well, but I do think that it was really nice that they were able to make that run out there in the crown invitation line.

Even though they might not be returning a ton of guys from that, how much do you take a look at these teams that they were able to close out the year strong? They were able to get on a run, even like to extend it to the SEC, a team like an Ole Miss, even though they didn't win the SEC tournament, them making a deep run in the SEC tournament, I think that that really bodes well for them for the upcoming season.