MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Bob Huggins endorses Kevin Mackey as “the master” of full-court pressure and frequently discusses nuances for generating new, trickier nightmares for dribblers. They shared a phone call just Monday, in fact.
Yet last March, before facing Maryland in the NCAA round of 32, Huggins and his top West Virginia defensive assistant Larry Harrison went looking for answers somewhere else: VCU’s Shaka Smart.
While Huggins mentioned the conversation with Smart on Tuesday—the day before WVU hosts Smart’s new program, Texas—Harrison expounded on Smart’s assistance and how it ultimately helped the Mountaineers advance to the Sweet 16.