The 1959–60 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represented West Virginia University in the 1959–60 college basketball season. At the time, the Mountaineers were a member of the Southern Conference and coached by Fred Schaus in what proved to be his final year in Morgantown. After the season, he became head coach of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, newly relocated from Minneapolis, where he was reunited with his graduated superstar player Jerry West.

NCAA basketball tournament

The second game against NYU would later be infamous due to the university having at least one player (with potentially two others also being involved) from the university trying to rig the game in favor of West Virginia before later forgetting about it and trying to win the game for NYU. The player in question would later be implicated in the 1961 NCAA University Division men's basketball gambling scandal.

Team players drafted into the NBA