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Darris Nichols enters sixth season on Florida coaching staff

(‘3 Guys Before the Game’ podcast Episode No. 211)

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Bob Huggins’ first point guard at West Virginia is poised to become a college basketball head coach. It appears a question of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’.

After a four-year playing career at WVU in which his statistics didn’t tell the entire story of his effectiveness, Nichols’ brief professional playing career ended after just one season in Hungary.

“I was like every kid that plays basketball now, I thought I was going to be in the NBA,” Nichols said.