West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) on Monday mentioned he’ll take authorized motion in opposition to the NCAA over West Virginia College’s (WVU) snub from the March Insanity event.
“I’ve asked Attorney General [JB McCuskey] to launch an investigation into the NCAA tournament selection committee to determine if any backyard deals, backroom deals, corruption, bribes or any nefarious activity occurred during the selection process,” Morrisey mentioned throughout a Monday press convention.
The WVU Mountaineers usually are not part of this 12 months’s March Insanity event, which additionally consists of the storied males’s basketball groups of Duke College, Gonzaga College and the College of Kansas. The Mountaineers are additionally not ranked in The Related Press’s ballot of the highest 25 males’s faculty basketball groups.
“Many of us were looking to see how WVU was going to be seated in the tournament,” Morrisey mentioned Monday. “Nearly every single sports fan, pundit, bracketologist, everyone had [WVU] as a shoe-in for the tournament. In fact, leading up to ‘Selection Sunday,’ 111 out of the 111 bracketologists projected WVU to make the tournament.”
The lads’s March Insanity event begins this Tuesday, starting with a recreation between St. Francis College and Alabama State College at 6:40 p.m. EDT.
In an identical transfer in late 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) went after the Faculty Soccer Playoff committee’s determination to exclude Florida State College from the four-team playoff discipline.
“What we learned today is that you can go undefeated and win your conference championship game, but the College Football Playoff committee will ignore these results. Congratulations to @FSUFootball for an outstanding season and winning the ACC championship!” DeSantis mentioned on the social platform X on the time.
The Hill has reached out to the NCAA for remark.
