Coming off a successful season last year, WVU women’s basketball looks for a more efficient offense to complement its top defense.
Head coach Mark Kellogg is entering his second season as the Mountaineers’ head coach. Coming off a 25-win season last year and a tournament win, Kellog believes the offense could be better this year, along with one of the nation’s toughest defenses.
Last year, the Mountaineers’ offense was ranked in the 40s nationally, while the defense was ranked in the top 5. After studying how some of the other top offenses operated, Kellog believes that the way to transform the offense is to create better opportunities to score, take higher-percentage shots, and improve their deep-range game.
“8.5 threes was the average threes made per game. We made about 7.1,” Kellogg said when talking about what the offense needs to do to get on par with the other top offenses.
Mark Kellog believes that this team is nothing short of a national championship contender and one of his personal goals is to host a tournament game.
“I want to be a top 16 seed and I want to be a top 4 seed where we get to host, I think the environment in Morgantown, West Virginia would be pretty special if we hosted one of the first two round games,” Kellogg said.
WVU is at the beginning of its preseason right now, coming up on a stretch of 30 practices over the next 42 days before it gets ready to jump into the 2024 season.
Their non-conference schedule is already set, they’ll open their season hosting Towson on Nov. 5 . Their official conference (Big 12) schedule for the WVU women’s basketball team will be released tomorrow.
