The problem for WVU is that the Committee stated they took DeVries injury into account and WVU's wins over Gonzaga and Arizona included DeVries in the lineup. KU and ISU are obviously good wins, but not enough to overcome their lower Quality metrics (which do include the games played with DeVries).
Nobody whines more than Pubs in 2025.
There is definitely a case to be made for WVU, but this is hardly the worst snub I’ve ever seen and this will go nowhere.
They just look silly, IMHO.
Wait, is that the new governor, or Jim Justice? How many morbidly obese old men can they elect?
There is definitely a case to be made for WVU, but this is hardly the worst snub I’ve ever seen and this will go nowhere.
They just look silly, IMHO.
Even as bad as we’ve been - on aggregate vs Q1 teams, the past 4 years - we still whooped d00k’s arse and sent K packing on Senior Day and in his final game for good and forever in the FF, during that time frame. Nobody will ever be able to take that away.
I'll answer my own question. Thirty. 30 teams in the NCAAT have a worse NET ranking than do the Heels. 30 teams.
And you have smaller schools that get in that don't play any quad 1 games but are in the tournament because they're the best teams from their conferences. If you are going to discredit bigger names like UNC due to their quad 1 record then it is only fair you do it to all the teams in the tournament.
Yep. Our NET is so high despite the ACC being so weak in part because of our murderous OOC schedule. Eight of our Quad 1 losses were against the top 11 teams in the NET. Not all quad 1 games are alike. I am not at all satisfied with the awful record against Q1 teams at all, but the winging is ridiculous at this point — and a lot of the same outraged prognosticators are picking us to win 1-3 games in the tournament.
We could lose to the Aztecs and the Committee could still have gotten it right.
And it's things like that - as well as the massive levels of poverty and unemployment and environmental damage caused by generations of coal mining and lots of other issues - that lead WV politicians to try and divert the public's attention by pulling stunts like this. And that's all this is, a publicity stunt. Even the governor likely knows that this will go nowhere, but thinks it will hopefully salve some of his constituent's wounded pride and focus their anger on the NCAA and UNC instead of people like him.
In “man/woman on the street” interviews after the February floods in West Virginia, the common threads were:
Oh, he's delivering for them, all right - DOGE is closing a large federal agency office in Parkersburg, WV and over 2,000 people in town will lose their jobs. The office complex is literally the last major employer of any decent jobs in town, and with it closing Parkersburg economically will be a dead zone. And yet the town voted heavily for Trump, and there was a large article recently in which those who are being fired said that while they were all for cutting government waste, they couldn't understand why Trump & Musk & DOGE would be cutting their jobs. I guess now they'll have a lot more time to go to church and pray to Republican Jesus to restore their dying town to life. And given how much federal assistance and jobs goes to WV, I'm sure that those folks in Parkersburg are only the first wave of many in that state who will soon be in the same situation.
Agree. But there is something to be said about removing all doubt that tends to shut people the fuck up.
