Bob Huggins was not pleased with how his players dominated the ball and didn’t share it in Monday’s loss to UConn.

“I used to have an assistant say, ‘They killed ants,'” Coach Bob Huggins said. “There wouldn’t be a damn ant alive if they had any in there.

“I’m telling you, we would have killed them all. We just dribble it and dribble it and dribble it and dribble it and dribble it and we don’t pass the ball.”

A lot of the blame would go to the freshmen, many who froze either with ball or with the weight of the end of the game on their shoulders. That’s discouraging, but perhaps doubly so when you consider WVU got a lot from its freshmen in a double-overtime win away from home in December.

“That was a month ago and we should be even better than earlier when we really didn’t know what to do in front of this type of crowd,” Jones said. “Guys know that we have to bring it down and run offense sometimes.

“But at that point with a lot of young guys on the floor, they get anxious when stuff isn’t going our way. We have to get them to calm down and learn how to use the clock, especially when we’re up.”