A state representative is not happy with the NCAA tournament selection committee, leaving his team out.
The governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, was found in a lectern during a press conference on Monday with a signal that said “National Corrupt Athletic Association” after the mountaineers of West Virginia did not arrive at the March madness group.
The mountaineers were one of the teams in the bubble, and although some believed they had a strong case to be among the 68 teams selected, the committee thought otherwise at the end.
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Patrick Morrisey (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg through Getty Images/File)
“West Virginia deserved to be in the NCAA tournament,” said Morrisey. “This is a spontaneous abortion of justice and theft at the highest level.”
Morrisey also announced that he has asked West Virginia attorney general, John McCuskey, to open an investigation into the NCAA Selection Committee to see if “rear door agreements were made.”
The Mountaineers were a marginal tournament team after 19-13 in general, while ending 10-10 in the Big 12 conference game.
Many believed that Western Virginia was going to enter the tournament when the Big 12 tournament began, since they had the team to make a possible race in the title. However, a surprising loss for Colorado, owner of the last place at the conference during the regular season, changed all that.
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The Selection Committee did not reveal whether that was the decisive factor in the mountaineers who left the support, but the word “Desaira” was quickly launched when that happened.
The support results led the chief coach Drian Devries, as well as the Atlético Wren Baker director, to publish statements on the matter. Devries said he was “surprised” that his team did not have the opportunity to compete for the national title.
“Obviously, we are extremely shocked, sad and disappointed for not being selected for the NCAA tournament,” says the statement. “We firmly believe that we have a curriculum that is worthy of a NCAA tournament team. I am incredibly proud of this team and what they achieved. They arrived their hearts this season and put all their collective efforts to make the NCAA tournament, and I think they did that.”
The Mountaineers coach of Virginia Occidental, Drian Devries, observes during the first half against the Colorado Buffaloes at the T-Mobile Center. (Images of William Purnell-Imagn)
Baker added: “I can’t understand that this team stays out. Our curriculum was better than several teams in the field and is a terrible parody that we were not included.”
One of the main statistical backups for a team is the 1 Wins quadrant, which the selection committee determines as a game against a team that is classified in the Top 30 of the Network (the NCAA evaluation tool) at home, against a 1-50 classified team on a neutral court and 1-75 in distance competitions.
West Virginia had six victories at the Quad 1 Games, while North Carolina, a team that many had problems making the tournament, had 1-12 in those games. The Mountaineers also had victories in four teams classified this season, including state No. 2 of Iowa in time, No. 3 Gonzaga (on a neutral court) and No. 7 Kansas.
His three victories about the 10 best AP teams are the largest in Big 12 this season.
Then, Morrisey described the dismissal of the “ridiculous” and “scandalous” mountaineers during an interview with Newsmax.
Patrick Morrisey (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
He also suggested that, while working as a State Attorney General, a successful lawsuit against the NCAA in the past could have led to the desaul.
“Is this compensation?” He said, referring to the demand he had with the governing body where he challenged the success rules in 2024. “We will have to get to the bottom of that.”
The Athletic Director of UNC, Bubba Cunningham, is also the president of the Selection Committee. He said Sunday, after the group was announced, that he was not in the room because of the decision to let the Tar Heels in the final team in the field.
Instead, Vice President Keith Gill was postponed, who gave an explanation of how the Tar Heels entered.
Patrick Morrisey (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“Our policies require that the announcement of any school be challenged and that they really abandon the space for those discussions. And they are not allowed to participate in any vote too … we voted in four teams in the field on Saturday night, and we had a contingency vote.
“The contingency vote, that was the last team in the field. And it was based on Memphis-Uab. If Memphis won that game, then that was going to free a place in the tournament and that was going to be North Carolina.”
