WVU's Bob Huggins Explains On-Court Collapse Was Caused by Defibrillator

After falling to his knees just prior to halftime of West Virginia's 77-62 win over Texas on Monday night, Mountaineers head coach Bob Huggins explained that the situation was caused by his defibrillator. 

According to ESPN.com, Huggins said it felt as though someone had hit him in the back, which caused him to go down.

The 63-year-old coach further described the feeling and also the mechanics behind the defibrillator: 

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"That's what happened when I fell down before; you stand up, you get lightheaded. ... It goes off, and what it does is it shocks your heart back into rhythm. I'm like 99.9 percent of other guys my age in America—I got AFib [irregular heartbeat]. Jerry [West] has AFib for crying out loud; he does the commercial."

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Huggins was fitted for the defibrillator after having a heart attack in 2002, and he said Monday marked only the second time it had gone off.

The WVU alum is in the midst of his 10th season coaching the Mountaineers and his 32nd year overall as a Division I head coach after previous stints at Akron, Cincinnati and Kansas State.