It’s not often a clear-as-day fit falls into your lap midway through the summer. And this one shouldn’t have happened, either. No one anticipated a disaster month-plus for Bob Huggins, one that saw his legendary career come to an end following a DUI arrest in Pittsburgh where a breath test determined his blood alcohol content was 0.21% — almost triple the legal limit. Just weeks before that, an anti-gay slur resulting in a suspension and salary reduction.
Huggins resigned and retired, opening a 30-day window for West Virginia players to enter the transfer portal with immediate eligibility. And it just happened to come during an offseason where the Mountaineers reeled in one of the top transfer classes in college basketball, headlined by former Syracuse standout Jesse Edwards, Arizona guard transfer Kerr Kriisa and Montana State star RaeQuan Battle.