Huggins: Crowd of 12,000 ‘unbelievable’ after snowstorm

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Icy gridlock on the roads. A stalled PRT on the rails.

Still, about 12,000 of the nearly 14,000 ticketbuyers made it to the WVU Coliseum to see the Mountaineers waylay No. 1 Kansas.

Afterward, Bob Huggins was appreciative.

“For 12,000 people to show up here on this night is unbelievable,” he said. “That’s fighting through some things. I know there were people still coming in the second half. It would’ve been very easy for those people to go watch it on TV.”

A packed student section kept the arena energized until the end, when overflow students from the upper sections descended and clogged the lower aisles—anticipating the Third Annual KU Courtstorming.

“The students were great,” Huggins said. “The PRT broke down but a bunch walked from downtown. To my recollection that’s never happened.”

After West Virginia improved to 15-1 overall and 4-0 in the Big 12, the coach found nothing to grouse about, except the lack of salt trucks on the roads.

Watch Huggins’ complete postgame news conference above.