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Huggins’ Heart Attack Cemented Cal Friendship; UK’s Patterson Motivated to Play West Virginia

By Adam Zagoria on March 26, 2010, 8:41PM

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – In late September 2002, Bob Huggins suffered a massive heart attack while at the National rental car outlet at the Pittsburgh International Airport.

After laying on the cement across from a Hertz rental car booth, Huggins ended up in an ambulance headed for Sewickley Valley Hospital in Sewickley, Pa., about 5 miles from the airport.

“What’s the ETA?” Huggins, who was then the head coach at Cincinnati and headed to a coaching clinic before he had trouble breathing, asked the ambulance attendant.

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**Kentucky forward Patrick Patterson, a West Virginia native, is looking forward to playing the Mountaineers in the Elite Eight. Read that story here.

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