One day after Virginie-Western was excluded from male basketball NCAA tournament, the governor of Virginia-Western, Patrick Morrisey, announced that the state threatened to take legal proceedings against the NCAA.
“Last night, like many Virginians-Western, we watched the March Madness selection committee … To see how WVU was going to be sown in the tournament,” said Morrissey, standing behind a podium with a panel that said “National Corrupt Athletic Association”, said on a press conference on Monday. “Almost all sports fan, experts, crochetologist, everyone had WVU as shoo-in for the tournament. In fact, led to the selection on Sunday 111 of the 111 Bracketologists projected WVU to make the tournament.
“I asked McCuskey (Virginie-Western) (JB) McCuskey to launch an investigation into the NCAA tournament selection committee to determine whether backstage, corruption, bribes or harmful activity did not occur during the selection process. We have to make the bottom.”
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When asked if the state would include a complaint against the NCAA, Morrissey said he was “too early for the dispute”.
“What we ask is a level of detail and a level of transparency, (a) a level of responsibility, so that teams like Virginia-Western can plan in the future,” said McCuskey. “We have to know what they are looking for.
“We hope to work with the NCAA to discover what is the objective metric. If it is not an objective metric, and it is purely subjective, how are we supposed to build a schedule, a list and a team to enter the NCAA tournament prospectively? We hope that the NCAA will work with us.”
Morrissey took a particular problem with North CarolinaInclusion in the field at 68 teams. UNC was the last team to receive a large -scale offer, with a certain controversy surrounding its selection, because the sports director Bubba Cunningham is president of the selection committee. Morrissey compared the curriculum vitae of the two schools, stressing that the Mountaineers won more quadric victories (six) than the Tar Heels (one), and they also won three top-10 victories.
“Virginia-Western deserves to be in the NCAA tournament,” said Morrissey. “It was a miscarriage of justice and theft at the highest level, and which was the last team to enter the tournament before the Mountaineers? It would be the University of North Carolina.
“I want people to leave this entry for a minute: 111 supports that were projected concerning North Carolina, UNC was only in 27,” added Cunningham. “It stinks at the highest level.”
Cunningham told CBS Sports that he had challenged all the conversations that the committee had surrounding the UNC, adding that he had left the room. He also shared that the injury surrounding the custody TUCKER DEVRIES played a role in the Snob of the Virginia-Western tournament.
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“We know that this does not pass the odor test,” said Morrissey about Cunningham’s commentary on Devries. “WVU, I believe, went 13-10 with Devries outside the programming, and they have always had huge victories against Kansas and Iowa State. Anyway, you cut it, this thing starts with corruption.”
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