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Huggins' Heart Tied to Calipari

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- When West Virginia and Kentucky battle for a trip to the Final Four Saturday in the Carrier Dome, one of the more intriguing storylines will involve coaches Bob Huggins and John Calipari.Or more specifically the time when Huggins suffered a heart attack in 2002, and while en route to the hospital,...

Huggins Demands More of Mountaineers

TAMPA, Fla. -- Fresh off a 19-point victory at South Florida Wednesday, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins walked into the post-game media room carrying a bucket of popcorn and a Diet Coke.Huggins looked like he was ready to sit down and pop in his favorite DVD. If he decided to watch West Virginia's 69-50 dismantling of the...

College Basketball's Top 25 Coaches

In an effort to talk about something college basketball-related other than scandals in the summer, let's talk best current coaches. We'll attempt to order the top 25 current coaches in the nation. This is about the present and the future, not the distant past. What a guy did in the mid-90s doesn't matter near as much as...

NCAA Roundtable: Midwest Region

The NCAA Tournament is so close we can smell it, so FanHouse's college basketball experts took some time away from their busy schedules to talk about who will come out of each region First up, the Midwest Region.Shane Bacon: Louisville is the top seed in the NCAA tournament and, thus, the top seed in this bracket. As crazy...

Ranking the Rankings: Providencial Putz

Ranking the rankings criticizes the critics when the polls come out.Headlining: Pittsburgh took over first in the country after beating Connecticut two weeks ago. All it had to do was beat Providence and the Panthers would get to sit pretty at No. 1 overall, possibly cruising to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. Yet,...

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02/23/12 West Virginia (SID): Notre Dame 71, West Virginia 44 Source: The Mid-Majority Jerian Grant scored 20 points and Notre Dame shot a sizzling 61.9 percent from the floor to run away with a 71-44 victory over West Virginia Wednesday night at Purcell Pavilion in Notre Dame, Ind. Tonight's 27-point defeat was the Mountaineers' worst since losing by 38, 84-46, at Villanova on Jan. 5, 2005, and it was Coach Bob Huggins' worst loss since falling 97-70 at Kansas on Feb. 7 , 2007 when he was coaching at Kansas State.
02/22/12 Preview: WVU-Notre Dame Source: FOX Sports Notre Dame continues to roll with arguably its most impressive winning streak under head coach Mike Brey. The Irish have a school-record eight consecutive Big East victories, including a 55-51 win at WVU, and sit tied for second place ( Marquette ) in the Big East with 11 wins in 15 league games â making Brey a prime candidate for Coach of the Year honors.
02/18/12 Thundering Herd to visit Southern Methodist today Source: The Register-Herald - Beckley WV Marshall will look to remain undefeated all-time against Southern Methodist University when it visits the Mustangs at 3 p.m. today.
02/17/12 West Virginia beats Panthers on the road Source: The Register-Herald - Beckley WV Kevin Jones scored 16 points to go with 13 rebounds and Deniz Kilicli added 14 points as West Virginia beat Pittsburgh 66-48 on Thursday night in perhaps the final basketball edition of the "Backyard Brawl."
02/16/12 Where Did the D Go?: West Virginia`s Collapse by John... Source: Basketball Prospectus As recently as late January things were going just fine for West Virginia.