West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins is expected to resign in the wake of his arrest for driving under the influence in Pittsburgh Friday evening, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports.
Huggins reportedly informed Mountaineers players during a meeting on Saturday that he would not be coaching them going forward, according to Stadium’s Jeff Goodman. No further information was provided to the team about who would serve as the coach next season.
Huggins, 69, was observed blocking traffic in Pittsburgh's Allegheny West neighborhood and pulled over, per a police report. He failed a sobriety test and was taken into custody.
The arrest added to an offseason filled with negative headlines for Huggins. On May 8, Huggins referred to Xavier fans as “Catholic f– on the Bill Cunningham Show on WLW-AM in Cincinnati, incurring a three-game suspension and pay cut for his actions.
Huggins’s use of the anti-LGBTQ slur prompted swift and widespread condemnation. The Hall of Fame coach apologized in a statement, writing, “I used a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for ... I am ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for those I have hurt. I must do better, and I will.”
The Morgantown, W.V. native has coached Akron, Cincinnati, Kansas State and West Virginia over the course of his nearly four-decade coaching career. He led the Bearcats and Mountaineers to the Final Four in 1992 and 2010, respectively, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022.
