West Virginia coach Bob Huggins arrested for DUI

West Virginia head basketball coach Bob Huggins is in some trouble with the law. According to Jeff Jenkins of MetroNews, Huggins was arrested Friday evening for a DUI in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jenkins reported the following details of his arrest:

“According to information from Pittsburgh police, Huggins was driving a black SUV at around 8:30 p.m. on Merchant Street off of Ridge Avenue when officers observed the vehicle in the middle of the road blocking traffic. Police said the driver’s side door was open and the vehicle had a flat and shredded tire.”

Per Jenkins, The police report stated:

“Officers directed the male driver on how best to move off the road so they could help with the flat tire. When they observed him having difficulty maneuvering the SUV to allow vehicles to pass, they activated their lights to pull him over. Upon questioning, officers had strong suspicion to believe the male was intoxicated. They asked him to exit the vehicle to perform standard field sobriety tests, which he failed. The male was placed in custody without incident and transported for further testing.”

However, Jenkins reports that Huggins was eventually released from custody and will have a hearing at a later date.

The longtime college hoops coach is 69 years old and about to enter his 17th season as the leader of the Mountaineers’ men’s program, for which he’s had a great deal of success. He found his way to Morgantown after a one-year stint as the Kansas State head coach, which came directly after a 16-year run as the coach at Cincinnati. With WVU, Huggins has made 11 NCAA Tournaments and earned one trip to the Final Four back in 2010 when his group toppled No. 1 seed Kentucky in the Elite Eight.

Since then, he hasn’t quite had the postseason success you’d hope, but West Virginia is nonetheless a competitive team year after year and had really loaded up their roster for this coming season via the Transfer Portal. Seriously, the upcoming WVU squad is packed to the gills with talent both homegrown and from the portal, making for one of the more talented rosters Huggins has had in M-Town.

Now, the question is whether he’ll even get to coach them after embroiling himself in multiple troubling incidents off the court this offseason, the latest of which being this DUI arrest. The future is dicey for WVU hoops.