MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia University officials said basketball coach Bob Huggins was taken to a hospital in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday for precautionary reasons after tripping on an airport tarmac and hitting his head on the pavement.

Athletic director Ed Pastilong said Huggins had a bump on his head, and never lost consciousness.

Pastilong said Huggins and other athletic department staff flew to Charlotte on Thursday morning for a Mountaineer Athletic Club event. After Huggins got off the plane, he was checking his cell phone messages when he tripped over a cone on the tarmac and hit his head.