FAYETTEVILLE — West Virginia’s men’s basketball team will play at the University of Arkansas for the first time when the teams meet at 1 p.m. today in the Big 12/SEC Challenge, but Mountaineers Coach Bob Huggins was on the visiting bench at Walton Arena 26 seasons ago.
Huggins’ Cincinnati Bearcats beat the Razorbacks 82-67 on Dec. 9, 1995, but what he recalls more vividly than the victory was a pregame encounter with a member of the security detail assigned to President Bill Clinton.
Clinton was among the crowd of 20,270 fans in attendance, and his presence required everyone entering the arena — including Huggins — to go through metal detectors and have their bags searched.