Longtime Cincinnati and West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins dealing with 'progressive cognitive condition'
Huggins won nearly 400 games at Cincinnati and almost 350 games at West Virginia.
Cincinnati and West Virginia's former men's basketball coach Bob Huggins is grappling with a progressive cognitive condition, his family and the university announced on Wednesday. While the exact nature of the condition affecting his memory and daily life was not specified, Huggins, 73, will be inducted into the Cincinnati Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday before the football team's game against Texas Tech the following day.
Coaching at Cincinnati from 1989 to 2005, Huggins led the Bearcats to prominence, breaking a 14-year NCAA tournament losing streak with a Final Four appearance in 1992. The team reached No. 1 in the AP Top 25 during the 1996-97 season but finished the year at No. 10 after a second-round NCAA tournament loss. Huggins resigned in 2005 following a DUI arrest and conflicts with the school's president.
He later coached at Kansas State and West Virginia, where he spent 16 seasons before retiring in June 2023 amid a second DUI arrest and a suspended salary. Huggins' career record stands at 863-389, with 398 wins at Cincinnati and 345 at West Virginia. His total of 935 wins ranks him eighth all-time among men's coaches across all NCAA and NAIA divisions.
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