Did West Virginia make March Madness? Mountaineers among first four out

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West Virginia basketball made noise in the first half of the season by picking up three Quad 1 wins during one month.

However, the Mountaineers’ work done early in the season wasn’t enough to secure a spot in the men’s NCAA Tournament.

Already entering the day on the bubble, West Virginia learned it missed out on March Madness in Year 1 of the Darian DeVries era in Morgantown as the “first team out” of the 68-team bracket during the Selection Sunday bracket show.

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The Mountaineers went 10-10 in the Big 12 this season and experienced an early exit in the conference tournament last week at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Here’s what you need to know on whether West Virginia made the NCAA Tournament or not, and more:

Did West Virginia make March Madness?

No, West Virginia did not make the 2025 March Madness Tournament.

The Mountaineers, instead, learned that they were the first team out of making the NCAA Tournament on Selection Sunday during the bracket reveal show.

West Virginia entered Selection Sunday vying for one of the final spots in the field of 68, as one of the handful of teams that found itself on the bubble. The Mountaineers’ first-round loss to Colorado, the last-place team in the Big 12, likely kept them out of the dance.

West Virginia being left out of the field was a shocking decision by the NCAA Tournament selection committee, considering the Mountaineers appeared on 111 of 111 brackets on Bracket Project — marking the first unanimous selection to ever miss out on the NCAA Tournament, per Bronco Nation News’s Nathan Carroll.

The one team that got in over West Virginia was UNC, a controversial decision by the selection…

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Publish date : 2025-03-17 00:06:00

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