Bob Huggins Is Marchs Author-in-Residence.

'Everyone knows Bob Huggins as the irascible, but lovable, beefy coach who stalks the sideline in a pullover and an updated pompadour.

Fewer know that he is the basketball version of John McPhee, the prolific writer known for deeply technical explorations of topics that range from oranges to the geology of California (to, in his first book, basketball).

Huggins, 64, is a very good coach. He has the 14th-most wins in Division I men’s basketball, with a career record of 771-315. He has never won a national championship, but he has led West Virginia to its ninth N.C.A.A. tournament in his 11 seasons there, including the 2010 Final Four. This year, the Mountaineers are a fifth seed, and will play 12th-seeded Murray State in an East Region first-round game on Friday afternoon in San Diego.

But the most unlikely part of Huggins’s legacy may turn out to be the nine instructional books he wrote while working as head coach at the University of Cincinnati in the 1990s and early 2000s.

“We got a bunch of calls from people wanting to know about, for instance, motion offense, or wanting to know about our press,” Huggins said in a phone interview last month. “You sit down and you write a bunch of stuff up and you send it to them.”'>>>

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