MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The NCAA women’s basketball tournament selection committee has all but shut the door on West Virginia.
The committee released a list of eight teams that are being considered for the final four at-large spots in the tournament field Sunday. The Mountaineers were not on the list.
The schools on the list being marketed as “the debatable eight” are: Arkansas, Auburn, Indiana, Ohio, Princeton, Tennessee, TCU and UCF. Princeton clinched the Ivy League title and an automatic berth after the list was first revealed by ESPN.
Unless West Virginia is considered safely in the tournament rather than on the bubble, it will miss out on the NCAA field for the second straight year.