Perspective: In the end, Bob Huggins’s talent for coaching college basketball wasn't enough to transcend his controversies.
Huggins survived that for one reason: He’s an icon in West Virginia. He graduated from high school in Morgantown; he played at West Virginia, averaging 13.2 points as a senior; and he returned in 2007 to coach thePerhaps the most memorable moment of Huggins’s career came in the Mountaineers’ Final Four loss to Duke. Late in that matchup, with the
Huggins is the son of a high school coach and knew he wanted to be a coach even when he was playing in college. He became a head coach at Walsh at 27 and was hired three years later at Akron. In 1989, he took over a once-great Cincinnati program that had fallen on hard times, to put it mildly. The Bearcats had gone to five consecutive Final Fours from 1959 to 1963, winning the national title twice. But when Huggins arrived, they hadn’t reached the NCAA tournament since 1977.
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