Campus Connection: Pregame Traditions

This week the NCAA website counted down college basketball’s top five pregame traditions and No. 4 on that list is the carpet West Virginia players run out on during pregame introductions.With the exception of the years Bucky Waters, Sonny Moran and Joedy Gardner coached at WVU, the carpet has been a pregame staple at West Virginia University home basketball games since 1955.

Here is the back story on how it came to be.

Coach Fred Schaus always enjoyed showmanship and during his time at West Virginia he introduced the knee-high socks popularized by North Carolina, had his players shave their arm-pit hair because he thought that made them look more appealing to female basketball fans and he…