MORGANTOWN - If the fall that Bob Huggins took Thursday affected him in any way, it wasn't his sense of humor.
MORGANTOWN - If the fall that Bob Huggins took Thursday affected him in any way, it wasn't his sense of humor.
After spending several hours in a Charlotte, N.C., hospital after falling while exiting a private airplane, Huggins was more than prepared to place blame for his mishap.
"Billy pushed me," Huggins said, referring to WVU assistant coach Billy Hahn. "He did the same thing to Gary [Williams] at Maryland. The guy has a history of this."
Huggins and other West Virginia officials were in Charlotte for a WVU alumni association event Thursday. They were traveling in an alumni association airplane.
After Huggins got off the plane, he was checking his cell phone messages when he tripped over a cone on the tarmac and hit his head, according to athletic director Ed Pastilong, who added that the coach had a bump on his head but never lost consciousness.
"Coach Huggins is fine and will be released from the hospital shortly,'' Pastilong said.
Huggins said the incident wasn't that big a deal and, had it been up to him, he wouldn't have gone to the hospital. Although he didn't say what, if anything, doctors told him about his injuries, he did say it was nothing serious.
"The doctor said my face would look a lot better," Huggins said, "if I didn't fall on it so much."
By 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Huggins and the rest of the traveling party were back on the same plane heading back to Morgantown.
Huggins, 54, signed a 10-year contract last week to remain at WVU through his 65th birthday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
MORGANTOWN - If the fall that Bob Huggins took Thursday affected him in any way, it wasn't his sense of humor.
After spending several hours in a Charlotte, N.C., hospital after falling while exiting a private airplane, Huggins was more than prepared to place blame for his mishap.
"Billy pushed me," Huggins said, referring to WVU assistant coach Billy Hahn. "He did the same thing to Gary [Williams] at Maryland. The guy has a history of this."
Huggins and other West Virginia officials were in Charlotte for a WVU alumni association event Thursday. They were traveling in an alumni association airplane.
After Huggins got off the plane, he was checking his cell phone messages when he tripped over a cone on the tarmac and hit his head, according to athletic director Ed Pastilong, who added that the coach had a bump on his head but never lost consciousness.
"Coach Huggins is fine and will be released from the hospital shortly,'' Pastilong said.
Huggins said the incident wasn't that big a deal and, had it been up to him, he wouldn't have gone to the hospital. Although he didn't say what, if anything, doctors told him about his injuries, he did say it was nothing serious.
"The doctor said my face would look a lot better," Huggins said, "if I didn't fall on it so much."
By 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Huggins and the rest of the traveling party were back on the same plane heading back to Morgantown.
Huggins, 54, signed a 10-year contract last week to remain at WVU through his 65th birthday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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