1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team

American college basketball season March 2026 August 2023 1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers Basketball Southern Conference SoCon 6 5 26-5 Fred Schaus 6th WVU Field House Southern Conference champions NCAA Men's Division I Tournament Sweet Sixteen 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.Figone Albert 2012 Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball Urbana: University of Illinois Press 9780252037283, pp. 95-96http://www.databasesports.com/ncaab/tourney.htm?yr=1960 1960 NCAA basketball tournament Bracket databasesports.com 2012-06-20 Team players drafted into the NBA Round Pick Player NBA club 1 2 Jerry West Minneapolis Lakershttp://www.databasebasketball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1960&lg=N 1960 NBA Draft on Databasebasketball.com 2012-05-27 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20120706005010/http://databasebasketball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1960&lg=N 2012-07-06 The Lakers participated in the draft as the Minneapolis Lakers, but moved to Los Angeles before the start of the 1960–61 season. References Category:West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball seasons Category:Southern Conference men's basketball champion seasons West Virginia West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball West Virginia