West Virginia coach Bob Huggins apologizes for using anti-gay slur in radio interview

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Hosts on the Bill Cunningham Show were laughing hysterically as Bob Huggins called Xavier fans an anti-gay slur on Monday afternoon. (AP/Charlie Riedel)

Longtime West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins apologized Monday afternoon after he used an anti-gay slur during an appearance on a Cincinnati sports radio show.

Huggins, in a statement released through the school, said he used “a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase that there is simply no excuse for.”

Huggins appeared on the Bill Cunningham Show on Monday, which airs on Cincinnati radio station 700WLW. Pretty quickly into the interview, Huggins was asked about whether he had “poached any Xavier guys to come to West Virginia” in the transfer portal. Xavier, the private Catholic university, is located in Cincinnati.

“Catholics don’t do that,” he quickly replied.

“Any school that can throw rubber penises on the floor and then say they didn’t do it, my god they can get away with anything.”

One of the show hosts then made a comment that it was “transgender night” at the game Huggins was referring to — which allegedly came when he was coaching at Cincinnati and Xavier fans threw dildos onto the court.

That’s when Huggins used the anti-gay slur.

“What it was was all those f**s, those Catholic f**s I think,” Huggins said. “They were envious they didn’t have one.”

Warning: This audio contains language that is NSFW

The show hosts then closed out the interview laughing and saying that Huggins was “the best.”

It’s unclear what punishment Huggins will face, if any. The university said in a statement that the “situation is under review.”

“There are consequences for our words and actions, and I will fully accept any coming my way,” he said in a statement. “I am ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken for those I have hurt. I must do better, and I will.”

Huggins has been at West Virginia since 2007. He’s compiled a 345-203 record in his 16 seasons with the Mountaineers, and been to the NCAA…

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