WVU Herren -Hoops rejects different post -season, governor Morrisey calls for an investigation by the NCAA selection committee

Morgantown – Darian Devries's first season as head coach of the WVU basketball team of the men is officially over.

The school announced on Monday morning – less than 24 hours after it was sniffed by the NCAA tournament – rejected invitations to other post -season tournaments.

“After we have advised our team, we decided not to take part in other off -season tournaments and will steer our support for the current members of our program and our preparation for the next year,” said Wren Baker WVU in a statement.

That was far from the end of the mountaineers in the news when the political leaders of the state threw their hat into the ring.

Patrick Morrisey, governor of West Virginia, went to the stock exchange on Monday and said that he had asked General Prosecutor John McCuskey to expand the NCAA tournament committee.

The investigation would determine: “If during the selection process in the back room business, corruption, bribes or a shameful activity,” said Morrisey. “I know the Attorney General and I will not leave anything in this process.”

Morrisey, who was behind a podium that had a sign of reading “National Corrupt Athletic Association” to stab a stinging at the NCAA, stopped threatening or threatening the beginning of this year's NCAA tournament, which would begin today.

Instead, Morrisey called for a transparency of the NCAA selection committee when passing on information with the examination.

“I think it is premature to talk about legal disputes,” he said. “At the moment we need to answer immediately. We will never rule out anything. We want to work with them. That smells a lot.

First, try to work with you to get all the information you need. To be honest, it is nothing you should hide. You should want to provide all of this information. “

Morrisey named the NCAA tournament as a business with several billion dollars and said that the end game of the examination would be to ensure that future NCAA tournament participants would be selected less subjectively and more transparently.

“It remains to be seen how it works in this case,” said Morrisey. “I think if everyone in America starts asking the NCAA the same questions, the faster this information becomes the faster you become public. We want transparency. We want objective criteria, and maybe we will not reverse this special situation, but it will be better for the future. “

The WVU NCAA -Snub on Sunday evening became viral on social media and criticized several reporters and channels of National College Hoops and channels like Dick Vitale from ESPN.

Much of the criticism was thrown in Bubba Cunningham, the chairman of the NCAA tournament selection committee and North Carolina's sports director.

North Carolina was the last AT-LARGE team on the square of 68, while the WVU was the first team.

According to the traditional rules of the committee, Cunningham said that he was not in the room when North Carolina was discussed and did not take part when the Tar Heels were on the vote.

“The first team was West Virginia,” Cunningham told CBS on Sunday evening. “They had an excellent year. Unfortunately, Tucker Devries was injured. The availability of players was something that we talked about. “

Tucker Devries, the son of WVUS head coach, played in just eight games for mountaineers this season and recently had a shoulder surgery.

North Carolina was higher in the NCAA net ranking than the WVU (36 to 51), but the Tar-Heels were 1-12 against the Quad 1 competition, while the mountaineers had a 6-10 record in Quad 1 games.

“I was surprised and disappointed that West Virginia was not offered an offer for the NCAA tournament,” said Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark. “In addition to their SIX Quad 1 victories, the Mountainers won 10 conference games in one of the hardest leagues in the country. West Virginia deserves a place and fans across the country agree. “

The mountaineers (19-13) as the top rated non-Ncaa tournament from the BIG 12 had received an automatic invitation to the new college basketball crown tournament.

This tournament, the creation of Fox Sports, is a 16-team field and is in its first year of creation.

The tournament is played in Las Vegas, but only begins on March 31.

There is a conflict there because the window of the spring transmission portal is open on March 24, which means that the current players on the WVU list could give intentions to switch to another school before the tournament begins.

There is also the possibility that Devries will no longer be the head coach of the mountaineers on March 31, since both IOWA and Indiana reported that Devries as head coach have shown.

“One of our team destinations was to achieve the NCAA tournament, and we had a CV of a NCAA tournament selection,” said Devries in a statement on Monday. “Our boys have made their hearts this season and all their collective efforts around the NCAA tournament.”