For West Virginia, this is the second time under coach Bob Huggins the Mountaineers have finished consecutive seasons in the AP poll.
Last year’s final AP poll had West Virginia ranked 20th; in 2010 the writers had West Virginia ranked sixth in its final poll and 22nd in 2011.
Prior to that, the last time a WVU men’s basketball team had back-to-back finishes in the writer’s poll?
Try 1960-61 when homes (and taxes) in Morgantown were a helluva lot cheaper, and guys named West and Thorn were playing for the Mountaineers.
The only other WVU coach to have back-to-back finishes in the AP poll was Fred Schaus in the late 1950s in what was considered the “Golden Era” of West Virginia basketball.