Bob Huggins Has Progressive Cognitive Condition, Family Says
WHO:
Fox News - Bob Huggins is a Hall of Fame basketball coach.
Yahoo Sports - Bob Huggins, 73, is a longtime men’s basketball coach for Cincinnati and West Virginia; he also coached at Akron, Kansas State, and Walsh University.
Yahoo Sports - Cincinnati and Huggins’ family announced that he is “living with a progressive cognitive condition.”
WHAT:
CBS Sports - Huggins won 399 games at Cincinnati, one more than the 398 cited by Yahoo Sports.
CBS Sports - Huggins’ West Virginia tenure included a Final Four appearance in 2010.
CBS Sports - Huggins was Cincinnati basketball’s all-time winningest head coach.
CBS Sports - CBS Sports reported Huggins won 934 career games, while Yahoo Sports reported 935.
Fox News - Huggins’ family disclosed his progressive cognitive condition ahead of his University of Cincinnati induction ceremony.
Yahoo Sports - The announcement did not identify the specific condition. It said the condition has “begun to affect his memory and aspects of his daily life.”
Yahoo Sports - Huggins coached Cincinnati from 1989 through 2005. Under his tenure, Cincinnati ended a 14-year NCAA tournament drought by reaching the 1992 Final Four.
Yahoo Sports - Cincinnati reached No. 1 in the AP Top 25 during the 1996-97 season and finished No. 10 after losing in the NCAA tournament’s second round.
Yahoo Sports - Cincinnati was the preseason No. 1 team in the AP poll in 1999, then lost in the second round. It was the Bearcats’ fourth consecutive second-round exit as a No. 2 or No. 3 seed.
Yahoo Sports - Huggins’ career record was 863-389: 398 wins at Cincinnati and 345 at West Virginia. Including NCAA and NAIA divisions, his 935 career wins ranked eighth among men’s coaches.
WHERE:
Yahoo Sports - Huggins coached at Cincinnati, Kansas State, West Virginia, Akron, and Division II Walsh University.
WHEN:
CBS Sports - Huggins coached Kansas State in 2006.
Daily Mail Sports - Huggins’ family said it had kept his condition private for several months before sharing the news.
Yahoo Sports - Huggins was scheduled to be inducted into the Cincinnati Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, ahead of the football team’s game against Texas Tech the next day.
Yahoo Sports - Huggins coached at Akron for five seasons before coaching Cincinnati from 1989 through 2005.
Yahoo Sports - After one season away from coaching, Huggins coached Kansas State for one season, then spent 16 seasons at West Virginia.
Yahoo Sports - Huggins resigned and retired in June of 2023 following a second DUI arrest.
WHY:
Daily Mail Sports - Huggins’ family said it believed it was “an appropriate time to share the news with the many people who have supported Bob throughout his remarkable career.”
Yahoo Sports - Huggins resigned from Cincinnati in spring 2005 following a DUI arrest the previous year and friction with the school’s president.
Yahoo Sports - Huggins’ West Virginia retirement followed his second DUI arrest.
HOW:
Yahoo Sports - Weeks after the second DUI arrest, Huggins had his attorney send West Virginia a letter stating that he had never signed a formal resignation letter.
Yahoo Sports - Before the 2023-24 season, Huggins was suspended for the first three games and had his salary reduced after using a slur in a radio interview.
Hall of Fame basketball coach Bob Huggins is living with a progressive cognitive condition that has begun to affect his memory and daily life, his family and the University of Cincinnati announced. They said they had kept the news private for several months and chose to share it ahead of his induction into Cincinnati’s Athletics Hall of Fame. The announcement did not name the specific condition. Huggins, 73, coached Cincinnati from 1989 to 2005, winning 399 games and becoming the program’s all-time winningest coach. His teams reached the 1992 Final Four, ending a 14-year NCAA tournament drought. He later led West Virginia to the 2010 Final Four and also coached at Akron, Kansas State and Walsh University. Across his career, Huggins won 935 games, ranking eighth among men’s coaches. He retired from West Virginia in 2023 after a second DUI arrest.