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Published Jan 24, 2020

NCAA Snapshot for the West Virginia basketball team

Keenan Cummings • WVSports

Managing Editor

@rivalskeenan

West Virginia is looking to get back into the NCAA Tournament after missing it with a 15-21 record a season ago and WVSports.com takes a look at where the Mountaineers sit in that regard as well as where the program could be seeded.

Here is our fourth edition looking at where the program currently sits in the overall quest to make another return to the tournament with conference play underway.

Here are where things stand today.

NCAA Tournament Resume

Metric	Results	Analysis

Overall Record	15-3	West Virginia had put together a strong start to the 2019-2020 season but a loss at Kansas State does take away some of the luster.
Big 12 Record	4-2	The Big 12 season is just getting underway but West Virginia is 4-2.
Strength of Schedule	9	This is never a question when Huggins is leading the program as West Virginia always plays a challenging non-conference slate and is now into conference play.
NET Rankings	7	This is perhaps the most important metric on here outside of the wins themselves as it is used for seeding in the NCAA Tournament. Right now, West Virginia is in a great spot.
Quadrant 1 and 2 Wins	at Ohio State (No. 18 NET) Wichita State (No. 30 NET) Northern Iowa (No. 51 NET) Rhode Island (No. 52 NET) at Oklahoma State (No. 85 NET) Akron (No. 60 NET) at Pittsburgh (No. 74 NET) Texas Tech (No. 32 NET) TCU (No. 57 NET) Texas (No. 68)	It's early in the season but West Virginia is already putting together a strong resume with some early wins.
Bad Losses	at Kansas State (No. 87 NET)	While it was a true road game and still qualifies as a quadrant two defeat, there is no sugar coating that losing to Kansas State is the first real ding to the West Virginia resume.

As of today West Virginia is a virtual lock for the NCAA Tournament. But where are the Mountaineers currently projected to end up?

--ESPN slots West Virginia as the No. 2 seed in the West Region in Tampa matched up against Little Rock.

--CBS assigns West Virginia as the No. 3 in the West Region in Cleveland matched up against Wright State.

--According to Bracketmatrix.com, which tallies a number of different brackets, West Virginia is listed in each of them with the highest seed No. 1 and the lowest a No. 4.

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