The West Virginia Mountaineers (3-4, 2-2) fell to the Kansas State Wildcats (6-1, 3-1) 45-18 on Saturday night during Homecoming weekend.

Head coach Neal Brown met with the media following the game and gave his immediate analysis of the loss.

Opening speech

We have a run-down locker room. The most injuries I can remember were probably in the first half, and in the second half they just did it to us. I went for it on fourth down down there because I knew it was going to be a touchdown game – we had a good game and couldn't convert. And then in the second half, three of our best offensive players went down, and we also had a couple of D-linemen who just didn't play well.

My thanks go to them, I think they are the best team in our league so far. I haven't seen everyone, but it's a good football team.

Quarterback Garrett Greene's two interceptions

The first interception was unfortunate, it wasn't a great pass – it was overturned. The second one was really a good game from them. We were “empty” and they were pressuring and they had shown that the game was “zero” behind it and they got out and, to be honest, really didn't have enough coverage, but our hot throw was in the flat and they were right there.

Give up two explosive plays, one for a touchdown.

On the first one (60-yard touchdown pass), we were in porous coverage and just got run past. Actually, this shouldn't happen.

The second Angle Route throw they threw to (junior running back DJ) Giddens in the third quarter is a good play. Compared to this coverage, it's a really good game. They implemented it well. We should have managed to get it down – it wasn't supposed to be explosive.

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Nicco Marchiol comes in for the injured Garrett Greene

Without watching it (on film), we weren't really productive. Some, if it's up to him. It's hard when you go in and play because you can't get the reps in and he was injured so he missed practice on Tuesday. So he basically had a work day on Wednesday and that was it. It's hard to say we weren't really productive in the second half, some of that was down to him and some of it wasn't.