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West Virginia’s Bob Huggins Gets 4-year Contract Extension

West Virginia’s Bob Huggins has agreed to a four-year contract extension that includes the option for him to step aside or continue coaching after the 2021-’22 season.

Under the agreement announced Monday, Huggins, 64, will earn $3.75 million this season, including a base salary of $250,000. He’ll get $100,000 raises each year.

“I want Bob Huggins leading our basketball program for many years to come,” WVU athletic director Shane Lyons said in a statement. “Bob is a future Hall of Famer, who cares about his players and this university. His teams have been highly successful on the court and in the classroom.”

Starting with the 2022-’23 season, Huggins can assume a five-year appointment in public relations and development along with other duties within the athletic department, ending in June 2027. Or he can continue coaching.

The arrangement is similar to a 2012 contract extension for Huggins.

“I am very lucky to be able to coach in the state and at the university that I love so much,” Huggins said.

Huggins is entering his 36th season as a head coach. His 819 career wins are the third most among active Division I coaches. The Mountaineers have gone to the NCAA Tournament in eight of Huggins’ 10 seasons.

No. 11 West Virginia opens play Friday night against No. 25 Texas A&M at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Huggins Among Coaches Examining NCAA Tournament Selection

  Kentucky’s John Calipari and West Virginia’s Bob Huggins are among more than a dozen coaches and administrators who have been chosen to examine the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection system.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches announced the ad hoc committee Monday. It will work with the NCAA in the coming weeks to discuss selection, seeding and bracketing processes.

Previous NABC committees have worked with the NCAA to adjust rules for student-athletes declaring for the NBA draft and to consider the demands placed on athletes’ time.

NABC executive director Jim Haney and former SEC commissioner Mike Slive will co-chair the committee, which also includes coaches such as Mark Few, Steve Fisher and Mark Turgeon, administrators Doug Elgin and Dan Guerrero and consultants Dan Davitt and Reggie Minton, among others.

Huggins and Mountaineers to Tangle with UK

After being picked by many so called college basketball experts to lose their opening NCAA Tournament game to Buffalo, West Virginia University is now headed to the Sweet 16.

The game tonight will pit the Mountaineers against the Wildcats in a rematch of the 2010 elite 8 game. That win by WVU put the Mountaineers in the final four for the first time in 51 years. A win Thursday evening, would put WVU one win away from a second final four in just five years.

An upset victory by the 5-seed Mountaineers won’t be easy though against the Number 1 seed Wildcats. This Kentucky team however is looking to make history as they enter the contest with 36 wins and 0 losses.  

It’s not another game because it’s in the Sweet 16 and in the NCAA Tournament and it’s one and done, so you can’t say it’s just another game. I just want our guys to know that Cal’s going to have them ready to go. John and I go back 30 or 40 years and we know each other really really well and we’ve played against each other a bunch of times. – WVU Head Coach Bob Huggins

That’s 10 times to be exact. That’s the number of times Huggins has coached against University of Kentucky Head Coach John Calipari. In those 10 all-time meetings between the two coaches at their various coaching stops, Huggins has won 8.

The 11th meeting between the two coaches could shape up to be the toughest for Huggins. Kentucky is undefeated and has been ranked number one most of the year. UK could be the first team to finish undefeated in college basketball since Indiana did it in 1976. Kentucky features a team that is only rivaled in height by NBA teams.  

The Mountaineers and Wildcats tip off at 9:45 Thursday evening. 

Mountaineers Looking for Improved Effort

As College Basketball Season nears, West Virginia University Head Coach Bob Huggins is hoping his team can take a step towards the top of the Big 12 Conference.

A year after finishing with 17 wins and 16 losses and a first round loss to Georgetown in the National Invitational Tournament, West Virginia University Basketball hopes with several new players things are better this season. The Mountaineers finished 6th in the Big 12 last season and are picked to finish in the same spot, sixth, according to the Big 12 preseason poll.

The Mountaineers will be led by last year’s league lead – scorer, Juwan Staten. He averaged 18 points per game and led the conference in minutes played per game at just over 37. Staten was also named preseason Big 12 player of the year. Last year’s top three shooters are now gone, and replaced by 7 newcomers including three junior-college players.

West Virginia gave up 80 points or more 14 times last season.

The Big 12 held its conference media day yesterday in Kansas City. 

WVU Basketball Prepares For Postseason Play

West Virginia University’s men’s and women’s basketball teams are getting ready for post-season play this week. The teams are performing better than they were a year ago.

WVU’s women’s team finished the season with a 29-4 record, the best they have done in four years. They will be playing in the NCAA tournament, for the fifth consecutive year.

WVU’s men’s team won 17 games this season, an improvement over last year, when the team only won 13. WVU is going to the National Invitation Tournament, where they will be playing Georgetown Tuesday. Georgetown is an old rival of the Mountaineers. The two played in the Big East conference, up until two years ago, when WVU moved to the Big 12.

WVU head coach Bob Huggins says most of his players aren’t familiar with that team anymore.

“We don’t have anybody who was here really when we played Georgetown. All those guys are gone, so it’s going to be a lot new for those other guys,” said Huggins.

The NIT tournament is comprised of 32 teams across the nation, that didn’t make it to the NCAA. WVU is the only representative from the Big 12.

Unlike the NCAA, where all of the games are played on neutral courts, the top seeds in the NIT play the early games on their home floors. WVU is a 5 seed, which means it won’t likely be playing any home games. Huggins says that’s not an issue.

“I have learned over the years that you try to control the things you can control, and do a good job controlling those, and don’t worry about the things you can’t control,” said Huggins.

But that means WVU is traveling to Washington D.C. to play Georgetown. However there is a unique twist. The game must be played at McDonough Arena, since the regular home for the Georgetown University Hoyas is hosting the circus. The arena is small and only fits 2,500 people. Huggins says the team is foreign to this venue.

“I imagine that it will be wild. We want to win and end the season on a positive note, and use it as a springboard for next year,” said Huggins.

The Mountaineers play Georgetown Tuesday night. If they win, they advance to the next round, and if they lose, the season will end. If they make it all the way to the semi-finals of the tournament, they will play in New York City. WVU won the tournament in 2007 and 1942.

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