WVU earns No. 7 seed and quick trip to Cleveland

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Whereas Pitt must travel 2,136 miles to Boise, Idaho, and Villanova 799 to Nashville, Tenn., and Syracuse 275 to Worcester, Mass., the Mountaineers -- and, almost as important, their vociferous fans -- will need only a short bus ride to northeast Ohio.

For the record, West Virginia hasn't played Creighton in basketball since 1932.

"Was Mickey Furfari at that game?" Beilein joked, referring to the state's esteemed septuagenarian sports writer and the 27-26, Morgantown loss by then-coach Francis Stadsvold's lads.

"See if Mickey can remember that."

The WVU ticket office for once showed they are a real class act and actually reserved 30 tickets for students. Now there was no fan fare about this and probably no way to know so I was just lucky enough to call as soon as I woke up this morning and land a ticket to the Thursday night session round 1.
You automatically pick up a second ticket to the saturday second round session if the Mountaineers win on Thursday.
The thursday night session cost $55, while online scalpers had them from 300-500, not too bad.
Then of course if the Mountaineers can knock off both No.10 Crouton and most likely No.2 Wake Forest, we're headed to Albuquerque.

I will continue to post my system plays as well as my full and complete bracket, that is guaranteed to win you plenty of office polls.

-n