From the day he stepped foot on campus in Morgantown, Jimmy Bell Jr.'s footwork caught the attention of West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins. He talked about it nearly every other press conference and even mentioned that he would make a good offensive tackle.
When Ross Hodge takes the floor at the WVU Coliseum next November, it will be his second-ever appearance coaching in the building. A few years back when he was an assistant under Grant McCasland at North Texas, the Mean Green came to town and gave the Mountaineers a bit of a scare.
College basketball insider Jeff Goodman recently reported that former longtime West Virginia assistant Jay Kuntz will become the new general manager at Pitt.
The Naismith College Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to the top men's and women's collegiate basketball players. It is named in honor of the inventor of basketball (in 1891), Dr. James Naismith.Can you name every men's college basketball player who has won the Naismith Award?
Since stepping away as the head coach at West Virginia two summers ago, Hall of Famer Bob Huggins' has been mentioned as a possible candidate at other schools to continue his legendary career.
West Virginia basketball’s search for a new head coach continues. The Mountaineers are missing out on Utah State coach Jerrod Calhoun as he is signing a deal to stay with the Aggies, per CBS Sports.
Tuesday morning, Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports reported that Utah State is finalizing a deal to keep men's head basketball coach Jerrod Calhoun. The deal would reportedly make him the second-highest-paid coach in the Mountain West Conference.
Could former Bearcats head coach Bob Huggins return to coaching? Jeff Goodman mentioned Huggins as a legitimate candidate for the McNeese State head coaching job.
Bob Huggins may not be done coaching just yet. A new report suggested Monday that Huggins could be a candidate for the vacant McNeese State job.
McNeese State basketball might be on the verge of a shocking hire. The Cowboys are acting quickly after head coach Will Wade departed for the NC State job.
Unfortunately, West Virginia director of athletics Wren Baker is right back in the same spot he's been the two previous offseasons - looking for a men's head basketball coach.
Bob Huggins now has some major support in his attempt at returning to coaching. With Huggins recently reiterating his desire to coach again, Kansas’ Bill Self offered his honest opinion about his coaching rival and friend.
It’s been two years since Bob Huggins coached his last game. At that time, he didn’t know that NCAA Tournament loss to Maryland would be the last time he would lead the Mountaineers, but that’s exactly what happened.
Former WVU basketball coach Josh Eilert will make his return to Morgantown Saturday as a member of the Utah coaching staff. A longtime assistant under Bob Huggins, Eilert served as the interim head coach for West Virginia last season following Huggins’s resignation.
Bob Huggins hasn’t ruled out making a return to coaching, he said at the South Florida Basketball Association charity luncheon last week. Huggins, 71, resigned from WVU in 2023 following a drunk driving arrest but isn’t quite ready to call his career finished for good, as reported by The Palm Beach Post.
Former PGA Tour champion John Daly will headline the 13th annual Bob Huggins Fish Fry, held on Feb. 1 at Mylan Park in Morgantown. Proceeds from the Bob Huggins Fish Fry benefit the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Endowment in support of cancer care services at Vandalia Health and the Remember the Miners Scholars Program.
West Virginia President Gordon Gee was a speaker at the 2024 Sports Business Journal Awards and gave some interesting comments regarding Bob Huggins' departure, the football team, and most notably, the school's search for a new head football coach.
PITTSBURGH — WVU basketball might not be as physical as it was under Bob Huggins, but one aspect of the Huggins era stayed true during the Backyard Brawl on Friday, they didn’t make shots.
The Darian DeVries era of WVU basketball is all of two games old, but Pitt coach Jeff Capel believes he’s already spotted a big difference in how the Mountaineers play under him compared to his predecessor.
No matter what anyone thinks of Bob Huggins, the impacts he’s made on cancer research in West Virginia is something no one can deny. And now the people of West Virginia have a date to circle on their calendars when it comes to seeing Huggins and supporting a great cause.
While at WVU on Saturday to call West Virginia’s loss to Iowa State, Fox broadcaster Tim Brando ran into a Mountaineer legend. Brando then posted about his encounter with Bob Huggins at Milan Puskar Stadium on social media.
Legendary former UC Bearcats head coach Bob Huggins is in the House at WVU Coliseum for Cincinnati's matchup against the West Virginia Mountaineers. Huggins was the longtime coach for both schools, culminating in a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction in 2022.
Jacque Huggins, the daughter of former West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins, called university president Gordon Gee and its board "cowards" and "backstabbers" in a Facebook post for turning their backs on her father.
Hall of Fame coach Bob Huggins' tenure with the West Virginia Mountaineers came to an unfortunate conclusion on Saturday when he resigned after being arrested for driving under the influence.
After a storied career that made him one of the most popular and significant figures in West Virginia sports history, Bob Huggins resigned on Saturday night as the program's men's basketball coach.
Bob Huggins received a slap on the wrist from West Virginia for his controversial comments on a Cincinnati radio show last week. Mountaineers donor Jonathan Adkins took notice.
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