1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team

1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball
Southern Conference champions
NCAA Men's Division I Tournament, Sweet Sixteen
Conference	Southern Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 6
AP	No. 5
Record	26-5 ( SoCon)
Head coach	Fred Schaus (6th season)
Home arena	WVU Field House

1959–60 Southern Conference men's basketball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Virginia Tech	12	–	1		.923			20	–	6		.769
No. 5 West Virginia †	9	–	2		.818			26	–	5		.839
William & Mary	10	–	5		.667			15	–	11		.577
The Citadel	8	–	4		.667			15	–	8		.652
George Washington	7	–	5		.583			15	–	11		.577
Furman	6	–	7		.462			9	–	16		.360
VMI	3	–	11		.214			4	–	16		.200
Richmond	2	–	12		.143			7	–	18		.280
Davidson	0	–	10		.000			5	–	19		.208
† Southern Conference Tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

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.^[1][2]

Team players drafted into the NBA

Round	Pick	Player	NBA Club
1	2	Jerry West	Minneapolis Lakers

^[3]

• The Lakers participated in the draft as the Minneapolis Lakers, but moved to Los Angeles before the start of the 1960–61 season.

References

1. Figone, Albert (2012). Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252037283., pp. 95-96
2. "1960 NCAA basketball tournament Bracket". databasesports.com. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
3. "1960 NBA Draft on". Databasebasketball.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2012.