Every March, a college basketball team that most people thought should be in the NCAA tournament is left out. This year, that team was the West Virginia Mountaineers.
West Virginia Governor Sues NCAA Tournament Selection Committee
Every year, the Bracket Matrix comes out, and over one hundred analysts predict the bracket field. This year, 111/111 brackets had the Mountaineers in the tournament, and they became the first team with a unanimous bracket matrix to miss the actual tournament.
While it stinks to be snubbed, the Mountaineers and the state of West Virginia are not going out quietly and have taken legal action against the NCAA for the committee’s decision to leave them out.
The governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, is taking legal action against the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee over their decision to leave the Mountaineers out of the bracket.
I truthfully don’t know how to feel about this choice. Do I laugh? Do I applaud? It’s hard to tell. I understand the pain of missing the tournament and being snubbed, but a lawsuit? That’s kind of wild, to say the least.
So why is Morrisey so overly upset about this snub? He says the NCAA is corrupt.
In a press conference about the suit, Morrisey called the NCAA the “National Corrupt Athletics Association,” most likely referring to the fact that the University of North Carolina’s athletic director, Bubba Cunningham, was the chairman of the selection committee.
When coming down to what bracketologists refer to as “the last four in” many believed that West Virginia should make it over North Carolina. However when the brackets came out, it was UNC that had made it over WVU.
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When a team gets in that probably shouldn’t, and that team’s AD is the chairman of said selection committee, I think it’s fair to raise eyebrows.
Morrisey is clearly very upset about this, let’s say, “coincidence” but I doubt he’ll see a victory from this lawsuit. But hey, at least West Virginia fans know that their governor has their back.
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