1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team
1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball | |
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Southern Conference champions | |
Conference | Southern Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 6 |
AP | No. 5 |
Record | 26-5 ( SoCon) |
Head coach |
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Home arena | WVU Field House |
Seasons ← 1958–59 1960–61 → |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virginia Tech | 12 | – | 1 | .923 | 20 | – | 6 | .769 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 5 West Virginia † | 9 | – | 2 | .818 | 26 | – | 5 | .839 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William & Mary | 10 | – | 5 | .667 | 15 | – | 11 | .577 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Citadel | 8 | – | 4 | .667 | 15 | – | 8 | .652 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Washington | 7 | – | 5 | .583 | 15 | – | 11 | .577 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Furman | 6 | – | 7 | .462 | 9 | – | 16 | .360 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
VMI | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 4 | – | 16 | .200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richmond | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 7 | – | 18 | .280 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Davidson | 0 | – | 10 | .000 | 5 | – | 19 | .208 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† Southern Conference Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll |
The 1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represented West Virginia University in the 1959–60 college basketball season. At the time, the Mountaineers were a member of the Southern Conference and coached by Fred Schaus in what proved to be his final year in Morgantown. After the season, he became head coach of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, newly relocated from Minneapolis, where he was reunited with his graduated superstar player Jerry West.
NCAA basketball tournament
- East
- West Virginia 94, Navy 86
- NYU 82, West Virginia 81
The second game against NYU would later be infamous due to the university having at least one player (with potentially two others also being involved) from the university trying to rig the game in favor of West Virginia before later forgetting about it and trying to win the game for NYU. The player in question would later be implicated in the 1961 NCAA University Division men's basketball gambling scandal.[1][2]
Team players drafted into the NBA
Round | Pick | Player | NBA Club |
1 | 2 | Jerry West | Minneapolis Lakers |
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- The Lakers participated in the draft as the Minneapolis Lakers, but moved to Los Angeles before the start of the 1960–61 season.
References
- ^ Figone, Albert (2012). Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252037283., pp. 95-96
- ^ "1960 NCAA basketball tournament Bracket". databasesports.com. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
- ^ "1960 NBA Draft on". Databasebasketball.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
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