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Hoops Across the Mountain State - Episode 70 with Willie Akers

Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 4 p.m.

b"The weather and leaves are changing, which means we are slowly approaching basketball season. That means this will be the last summer interview for this year. We had to leave it with a bang.

Basketball is the backbone of many communities in West Virginia, which means we have seen incredible coaches and players rise up from those communities.

Willie Akers, long-time Logan boy's head basketball coach & member of WVU's 1959 runner-up team, joins Taylor for Episode 70!

The two discussed Willie growing up and playing basketball in Mullens, the drive he possessed at an early age, what led him to WVU, his relationship with Jerry West, coaching the Logan Wildcats, where the name Willie's Running Wildcats came from, and more!

You will certainly not want to miss this episode!

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