The Minnesota Gophers were the recipients of a huge snub by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee yesterday. How bad a snub (really bad or all time bad) is up for debate, but one interesting side note to the whole story was the NCAA’s unwillingness to comment or answer questions about how the Gophers went from the #7 team in the Committee’s May 7th rankings to the #17th team in the May 14 seeding.
After being questioned about this repeatedly by local media, the NCAA released the following statement. Please click on the following embedded tweet from @JaceFrederick to see the full statement in four images.