Former K-State men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins is living with a progressive cognitive condition that has begun affecting his memory and aspects of his daily life, his family announced Wednesday.
The 73-year-old’s family shared the update after keeping the condition private for several months. According to ESPN, the announcement came ahead of Huggins’ induction into Cincinnati Athletics’ James P. Kelly Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday. The family did not identify a specific diagnosis.
Huggins spent the 2006-07 season in Manhattan, leading the Wildcats to a 23-12 record and their first postseason appearance in eight years. K-State finished fourth in the Big 12 with a 10-6 conference record before advancing to the second round of the National Invitational Tournament.
After leaving K-State in 2007, he returned to his alma mater, West Virginia, where he coached for 16 seasons. Huggins led the Mountaineers to the 2010 NCAA Final Four and finished his tenure with 345 wins.
Across five collegiate programs — Walsh, Akron, Cincinnati, K-State and West Virginia — Huggins compiled 935 career wins. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022 and retired from coaching in 2023.
