WVU Basketball: Bob Huggins Appears to Be Leaving Morgantown Forever, Bringing a Sad Ending to His West Virginia Story

As The Voice of Morgantown first reported this weekend, Huggins has put his longtime Morgantown home on the market. The Burroughs Street property is listed for $2,195,000 and features five bedrooms, seven bathrooms and more than 8,800 square feet of living space on 1.19 acres. Putting a house up for sale doesn’t necessarily mean someone is leaving town, but in Huggins’ case, there are enough other signs that this could be much more than simply changing addresses.

BREAKING: Bob Huggins' Morgantown home has been listed on the market! Could this be the end of his time in West Virginia? Huggins' 5 bedroom, 7 bathroom, 8,818 square foot home is currently listed at $2.2 million. pic.twitter.com/q2uO2CeoQD

— The Voice of Morgantown (@voicemorgantown) August 29, 2026

Although nothing has been confirmed by Huggins himself, there has been talk that he could ultimately relocate to the Cincinnati area while potentially spending part of the year at his condo in Florida. Until Huggins says exactly what his plans are, that should be treated as speculation. But with his longtime Morgantown home now officially on the market, it certainly feels like Bob Huggins could really be leaving Morgantown and perhaps West Virginia for good.

This wasn’t how the Bob Huggins story at West Virginia was supposed to end. Not even close. When Huggins returned to WVU in 2007, he wasn’t just another successful coach taking another job. He was coming home. Huggins was born in Morgantown, graduated from West Virginia University, played for the Mountaineers and eventually became one of the most successful coaches in the history of college basketball. He returned to lead his alma mater and spent 16 seasons as the face of West Virginia basketball, winning 345 games, making 11 NCAA Tournament appearances and taking the Mountaineers to the Final Four in 2010.

For years, it seemed almost inevitable that Huggins would coach his final game at WVU, retire in Morgantown and spend the rest of his life as one of the most beloved sports figures in the history of the state. He had already built his life here. This was home. The expectation was that whenever his coaching career finally ended, Huggins would walk away on his own terms and remain a major part of West Virginia University and the Morgantown community.

Instead, everything fell apart in 2023. Huggins’ WVU coaching career came to a stunning end following his DUI arrest in Pittsburgh. What followed was an ugly and very public split between Huggins and the university over the circumstances surrounding his resignation. Regardless of how anyone felt about what happened afterward, the reality was that one of the greatest coaches in college basketball history left West Virginia under a cloud of controversy and as a disgraced figure rather than the celebrated hometown legend everyone expected him to be when his career eventually ended.

There was no final game at the Coliseum. There was no retirement tour. There was no opportunity for Mountaineer fans to pack the building one final time and thank him for everything he had done for the program. There was no emotional goodbye after 16 seasons. One day Bob Huggins was the head coach at West Virginia, and then suddenly he wasn’t.

Recent events have only made the possibility of Huggins leaving Morgantown feel even more real. Huggins recently released a documentary about his life and coaching career, and its premiere showing in Cincinnati sold out. A second showing was scheduled for Morgantown, the city where Huggins was born, played his college basketball and spent the final 16 years of his coaching career. That showing, however, was canceled after it failed to sell enough tickets.

Cincinnati, the city where Huggins built himself into one of the biggest names in college basketball, welcomed him back with a sold-out showing. Morgantown, the place Huggins came home to and once seemed destined to spend the rest of his life, couldn’t generate enough interest to hold its scheduled event.

Maybe that’s why this feels like something much bigger than a $2.195 million real estate listing. Huggins’ connection to West Virginia was never supposed to end when he stopped coaching. For years, it felt like the exact opposite. Morgantown was supposed to be where he stayed after basketball was finished. He was one of us, and that was always a huge part of his appeal.

Huggins could have continued building his career elsewhere in 2007. Instead, when West Virginia called, he came home. He spent the next 16 years chasing the national championship he desperately wanted to bring to his alma mater and his home state. He came incredibly close in 2010, taking the Mountaineers to the Final Four and giving West Virginia basketball one of the greatest seasons in program history.

That’s what makes the ending so difficult to reconcile with everything that came before it. Bob Huggins was supposed to eventually walk away from basketball as the beloved hometown coach who came back to West Virginia and finished his career at his alma mater. He was supposed to remain around the program, show up at the Coliseum and spend his retirement in the place he had always called home.

Instead, his coaching career ended abruptly following a DUI arrest, his relationship with WVU fractured publicly, and three years later his longtime Morgantown home is on the market for nearly $2.2 million. Meanwhile, Cincinnati appears to be embracing Huggins again, and there is now speculation that he could return to that area while spending portions of the year in Florida.

None of this erases what Bob Huggins accomplished at West Virginia. It doesn’t erase 345 wins, the 2010 Final Four, the great players, the packed Coliseum or the countless memories he gave Mountaineer fans. He’ll always be a West Virginia graduate, a former Mountaineer player and one of the greatest coaches the school has ever had.

But endings matter, too. Three years ago, it would have been almost impossible to imagine Bob Huggins spending the later years of his life anywhere other than Morgantown. Today, his longtime home has a $2,195,000 price tag attached to it, and all indications seem to be pointing toward Huggins beginning the next chapter of his life somewhere else.

Maybe he’ll return for games, charity events or reunions. Maybe time will eventually repair some of the damage from the way everything ended. But if Bob Huggins really is packing up and leaving Morgantown for good, there is no way around how sad the entire thing feels.

He came home as one of West Virginia’s favorite sons and appeared destined to grow old here as one of the state’s most beloved sports figures.

Instead, Bob Huggins appears to be leaving Morgantown as a disgraced former coach whose story at West Virginia ended in a way almost nobody could have imagined.

And if that really is the end, it’s one of the saddest final chapters in the history of West Virginia sports.