It looks like TV Teddy will be seeing a whole lot less screen time this postseason.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, controversial college basketball official Ted Valentine has been barred from this year’s NCAA Tournament.
In an interview with ESPN, Valentine said he was being held out of March Madness due to the “fallout from the incident in which he turned his back on North Carolina’s Joel Berry II during a game back in January.”
“This is not right, it’s just not fair,” Valentine told ESPN. “It hit me like a ton of bricks.