For West Virginia, it will be a long wait until Selection Monday – and it likely won’t result in a happy ending.
The Mountaineers (20-10) watched the ice thin on their hopes of a berth in the NCAA tournament with a 72-59 loss to fourth-seeded Kansas State in the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals. West Virginia would have been on the inside track to an NCAA tourney bid with a win over a team with the nation’s No. 35 RPI, but now has to wait until March 18 to see if its full body of work is enough to get in.