West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has signed a contract extension that will likely carry the 67-year-old Morgantown native through the end of his coaching career, the university announced Friday.
Huggins will serve as head coach through the 2023-24 season, then reassess whether to continue in his current role or retire and move to Emeritus status within the athletic department. He will declared by May 1 whether he intends to continue to coach and is guaranteed at least two years of Emeritus status.
Huggins will make $4.15 million annually, which is the roughly the same salary he received on the four-year extension he signed in 2017. He will make $50,000 plus deferred compension when he assumes Emeritus status.
“I certainly appreciate the opportunity that I’ve been given to represent this great university and state that I love so much,” Huggins said in a press release. “As I’ve said before, I am blessed to coach at my alma mater — the place that all West Virginians love. I’m truly blessed.”
Huggins, whose first head coaching job was at Walsh University in Ohio in 1980, is 310-171 as West Virginia head coach since joining his alma mater in 2007. He won 399 games at Cincinnati from 1991-2005.
With an overall record of 900-382, he is sixth in all-time Division I men’s basketball victories, behind Mike Krzyzewski (1,170), Jim Boeheim (982), Jim Calhoun (918), Roy Williams (903) and Bob Knight (902).
