The West Virginia Mountaineers (18-9, 11-6 Big 12) are a No. 3 seed in the Midwest region of the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The Mountaineers will square off with the Morehead State Eagles in Indianapolis on Friday, March 19. Tip off for that game has not been announced as of the time of writing. The Eagles finished the season with a 23-7 (17-3 OVC) record, after knocking off top-seeded Belmont on March 6th to win Ohio Valley Conference title.
If the Mountaineers make it past the Eagles, they will take on the sixth-seed San Diego State Aztecs from the Mountain West Conference or Jim Boeheim’s eleventh-seed Syracuse Orange.