West Virginia's Bob Huggins talks getting team back on track, reveals 'bad thing' about transfer portal

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West Virginia men’s basketball is looking to bounce back from the school’s first losing season since 2018-19, and trying to make headway in one of the toughest conferences in the sport is no easy task.

Big 12 Conference schools have won the last two men’s tournaments with Bill Self leading Kansas to a title last season, and Scott Drew guiding Baylor in 2021.

Bob Huggins, who was recently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, will lead a team of three seniors and a handful of guys who are going into their fifth year. Huggins knows the difficult task at hand, competing against some of the top coaches in the game.

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West Virginia Mountaineers head coach Bob Huggins in the first half of a Big 12 Tournament quarterfinal game between the West Virginia Mountaineers and Kansas Jayhawks on March 10, 2022, at T-Mobile Arena in Kansas City, MO. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Some of them are harder than others. I think the atmosphere they have at Kansas is harder to play. And a lot of places, when you put that many people in an old building, the people are very vocal. That makes it, I think, a little bit more difficult," Huggins told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. 

"Communication certainly becomes a whole lot more difficult, but, I mean, we got a great league, we’ve got great coaches, everybody gets along. We don’t have issues. The players love playing in the league. We’ve had success with, I think, a large multitude of guys going on to play professionally and make that their career. So, I don’t have much to complain about."

Huggins looked to the transfer portal to