PHOENIX — West Virginia coach Bob Huggins lives life and still doesn’t profess to worrying much about the details. Huggins, who has suffered a heart attack, on Wednesday quipped, “I’d like to sit here and tell you I eat better, but look at me.”
When it comes to basketball, however, Huggins is leaving nothing to chance as his seventh-seeded Mountaineers prepare to face third-seeded Xavier on Thursday with the winner moving on to the West Region final. He praised this collection of players, recruited to shoot 3-pointers and play zone defense by former coach John Beilein, that now play man-to-man and run a free-flowing offense.
“This is as low maintenance a bunch of guys as you can imagine,” Huggins said.
But as for the matchup against Xavier, a team Huggins used to coach against annually when he was at Cincinnati, he downplayed it, saying “It’s an important game. It’s really not any more than that.”
