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Tuesday / November 5.
  • Huggins Traveling With Bodyguard

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    West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is traveling with a bodyguard after he was heckled by a fan a week ago in Las Vegas.

    OK, C.J. Culliton is not being called a “bodyguard,” but rather a “security” person.

    “I wouldn’t say it’s a bodyguard. He’s the head of our security,” Bryan Messerly, the school’s sports information director, told the Charleston Gazette. “I think it’s just to have someone here and if he sees something that could get out of control he can talk to the appropriate security people [at the venue].”

    According to the Gazette, Culliton — who is in charge of Contemporary Services Corporation’s West Virginia operations and made the trip to Newark for West Virginia’s 67-48 loss to Seton Hall — “shadows Huggins before, during and after games.”

    The new security is in effect after Huggins was heckled so badly in Las Vegas last week that he had to be restrained from going after a man in the stands.

    “We’re not the only school in the Big East that travels with someone,” Messerly said. “Georgetown has for years and I think Louisville does and several other schools.”

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    Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle. A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

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