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13. WVU Basketball Coach Bucky Waters Instructs the Team

14. WVU Basketball Players Clyde Green, Captain Leland Byrd, Fred Schaus, and Bill Zickel, West Virginia University

15. WVU Basketball Players Tom Leverte, Jimmy Walthall, Eddie Beach, and Bobby Carroll, West Virginia University

The late Lee Patton was an outstanding WVU basketball coach from 1946-50. A Carbon, Texas, native, Patton led the Mountaineers to a 91-26 overall record during his tenure for a .778 winning percentage, still the second best in school history.  Patton led West Virginia to two straight NIT berths in 1946 and 1947. Under his direction, WVU posted a school-record 57-game home winning streak that ended in the final home game of the 1949 season against Pitt.

16. WVU Basketball Coach Lee Patton

Portrait of All American Leland 'Lefty' Byrd, member of the West Virginia University Basketball Team.

17. WVU Basketball Player Leland Byrd

Autographed photograph of Maurice 'Mo' Robinson, a member of the West Virginia University Basketball Team.

18. WVU Basketball Player Maurice Robinson, West Virginia University

Portrait of Russell Chapman, a forward of the West Virginia University Basketball  Team.

19. WVU Basketball Player Russell Chapman, West Virginia University

Autographed photograph of Ernie Hall, guard of the West Virginia University Basketball Team.

20. WVU Basketball Player Ernie Hall

21. WVU Basketball Coach Bucky Waters Instructs His Team

22. WVU Basketball Coach Bucky Waters Instructs His Team

23. WVU Basketball Coach Bucky Waters

24. WVU Basketball Player, Guard, Dave McCardle