WVU Basketball Reaches Most Losses in Single Season in Program History

With a 92-56 loss to Cincinnati on Saturday, WVU Basketball reached the most losses in a single season at 22. This group surpasses the highest loss total that was held by the 2018-19 team.

This is also only the third time in program history where West Virginia has lost 20+ games in a single season.

The West Virginia men’s basketball program has 31 NCAA Tournament appearances, 13 conference titles, has reached the Sweet 16 in 11 seasons, has 3 Elite 8 years, 2 Final 4’s, a national championship claim (1942) and is associated with some legendary basketball figures. WVU isn’t…

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This year, West Virginia had to quickly recover from Bob Huggins’ resignation in June and promote then-assistant Josh Eilert to interim HC. Eilert and his staff retained four returning players and a trio of transfers, then mixed that group with another transfer group in the late months of the summer. After waiver denials, a suspension and a freak injury, West Virginia had just eight scholarship players available for the first nine games of the season. Once WVU got all of their players back into the rotation, it was too late for the team to turn things around with a tough conference schedule.

Huggins coached the 2018-19 team, who finished 15-21 while trying to rebuild the program from the ‘Press Virginia’ era. West Virginia entered the season 13th in the AP preseason poll and did reach an 8-4 record before Big 12 play. WVU went 4-14 during Big 12 play before winning a couple of games in the conference tournament. The Mountaineers accepted a CBI bid and fell to Coastal Carolina to end the year.

West Virginia will now head to Kansas City for the Big 12 Conference Tournament.