BREAKING: Bob Huggins Resigns as West Virginia Head Coach
According to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports, Bob Huggins has informed the men's basketball team at West Virginia that he will not be coaching next season and has resigned. Huggins was arrested on a DUI charge Friday evening in Pittsburgh.
The Hall of Famer isn't going out the way he or fans throughout the state imagined but after a chaotic offseason, the university had no choice but to make the move.
Last month, Huggins used a homophobic slur on a local Cincinnati radio show in reference to Xavier fans. After a series of conversations, WVU athletic director Wren Baker elected to not fire Huggins at the time but handed him a three-game suspension to begin the 2023-24 season along with an amended contract with a salary reduction of $1 million.
Huggins' 935 career wins lead all active NCAA men's coaches. The Morgantown, WV native led his teams to 26 NCAA Tournament berths, including nine appearances in the Sweet Sixteen and two appearances in the NCAA Final Four.
In 16 years as the head coach at the University of Cincinnati (1989-2005), Huggins led the Bearcats to eight Conference USA regular season championships, four Conference USA Tournament championships, was a three-time Conference USA Coach of the Year, and was honored as the Conference USA Coach of the Decade in 2005. On the national level, he was tabbed as the Sporting News National Coach of the Year in 2000 and the ESPN.com National Coach of the Year in 2002.
The Morgantown native accumulated a 345-203 record while at West Virginia with 11 NCAA tournament appearances, including five Sweet Sixteen's and a Final Four.
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