| Year: | 2019–20 |
| Team: | West Virginia Mountaineers |
| Sport: | Basketball |
| Conference: | Big 12 Conference |
| Short Conf: | Big 12 |
| Coachrank: | 24 |
| Aprank: | 24 |
| Record: | 21–10 |
| Conf Record: | 9–9 |
| Hc Year: | 13th |
| Champion: | Cancún Challenge Riviera Division champions |
The 2019–20 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represented West Virginia University during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Mountaineers were coached by Bob Huggins, in his 13th season as WVU's head coach, and played their home games at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, West Virginia as members of the Big 12 Conference. Preseason Big 12 polls picked the Mountaineers to finish 5th in the conference standings and Oscar Tshiebwe was picked as Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year. The Mountaineers season officially started on November 8, 2019.[1]
The Mountaineers finished the 2018–19 season 15–21, 4–14 in Big 12 play to finish in last place in the conference. They defeated Oklahoma and Texas Tech to advance to the semifinal game of the Big 12 tournament where they lost to Kansas. They received an invitation to the 2019 College Basketball Invitational where they defeated Grand Canyon and advanced to the second round where they were defeated by Coastal Carolina.[2]
| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Reason for departure | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trey Doomes | 0 | G | 6'3" | 175 | Transferred to Chattanooga[3] | |||
| 3 | G | 6'0" | 188 | Graduate transferred to Alabama[4] | ||||
| Andrew Gordon | 12 | F | 6'9" | 255 | Transferred to Louisiana Tech[5] | |||
| Lamont West | 15 | F | 6'8" | 222 | Graduate transferred to Missouri State[6] | |||
| Taevon Horton | 20 | G | 6'1" | 190 | Walk-on; transferred to Missouri State–West Plains[7] | |||
| Wesley Harris | 21 | F | 6'8" | 200 | Dismissed from team (mid-season);[8] graduate transferred to Tennessee State[9] | |||
| Esa Ahmad | 23 | F | 6'8" | 225 | Dismissed from team (mid-season)[10] | |||
| 50 | F | 6'8" | 250 | Play professionally[11] |
| Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Previous School | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | F | 6'7" | 235 | Transferred from Arkansas. His waiver for immediate eligibility was approved as of November 20, 2019.[12] | ||||
| 12 | G | 6'4" | 185 | Junior college transferred from Collin College. | ||||
| Sean McNeil | 22 | G | 6'3" | 207 | Junior college transferred from Sinclair CC. |
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See also: 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings. *AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings.