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Big 12 Commissioner Releases Statement on West Virginia NCAA Tournament Snub

West Virginia was a big snub of this year's NCAA tournament | William Purnell-Imagn Images

This year's NCAA tournament field has been set, and there was arguably no greater snub from Selection Sunday than the West Virginia Mountaineers.

Despite a 19-13 record with big wins over Arizona and Gonzaga in neutral site games, WVU was left on the outside looking in— and the committee's reasoning was perhaps worse than the decision. Chair Bubba Cunningham referred to the absence of senior Tucker DeVries as a motivating factor to leave the Mountaineers out, even though DeVries has played all of eight games this year and hasn't seen the court in three months.

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