West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins will be suspended for part of the upcoming season and will have his salary reduced — but won’t be fired — as punishment for anti-gay slurs he made in a radio interview earlier this week, according to multiple reports.

Mike Casazza, who covers the Mountaineers for 247 Sports, is reporting that Huggins will sit out the first three games of the 2023-24 season. He will also have his contract amended to include a $1 million reduction in pay from his salary of $4.15 million, and must undergo sensitivity training.

West Virginia opens the season with home games against Missouri State on Nov. 6, Monmouth on Nov. 10 and Jacksonville State Nov. 14. Huggins would be eligible to return in time for the Mountaineers’ trip to the Fort Myers (Fla.) Tip-Off Classic, which begins Nov. 20.

The 69-year-old Huggins has been under fire since audio surfaced of an interview Huggins gave to a Cincinnati radio station on Monday morning. Huggins, who coached the Cincinnati Bearcats from 1989-2005, referred to Xavier fans as “f**s” and later as “Catholic f**s” (Xavier, a Catholic school, is Cincinnati’s crosstown rival).

Huggins issued an apology Monday afternoon, saying in part that he had “no excuse” for using those words and was “ashamed and embarrassed and heartbroken” for those he had hurt. The West Virginia athletic department later issued its own statement, calling Huggins’ comments “insensitive and offensive” and contrary to their “university values.”

Huggins has been coach at West Virginia, his alma mater, since 2007. He is first among active NCAA Division I basketball coaches with 934 wins in stops at Akron, Cincinnati, Kansas State and West Virginia, and also has 11 conference championships and a pair of trips to the Final Four.

According to Casazza’s report, Huggins has just one guaranteed year remaining on the contract extension he signed in 2021. However, he has options to extend the contract through the end of the 2026-27 season.