Yusuf Ali is an assistant coach for the West Virginia University men's basketball program in Morgantown, West Virginia. He joined Ross Hodge's first coaching staff in fall 2025.
In Ali's first season at WVU, the Mountaineers won 21 games and captured the 2026 College Basketball Crown in Las Vegas with victories over Stanford, Creighton and Oklahoma. Picked 11th in the preseason Big 12 poll after returning no scoring from the previous season, West Virginia finished seventh in the league. The team also posted notable results that year, including ranked wins over BYU and Kansas, a 13-0 start at home, and major second-half road comebacks against UCF and Cincinnati. West Virginia's 22-point win over Pitt was the program's largest margin of victory in that series in 55 years at Hope Coliseum, and the Panthers' 49 points were their fewest in Morgantown since 1949.
