{"id":661960,"date":"2026-03-17T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/661960\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:04:16","slug":"west-virginias-matchup-set-for-the-college-basketball-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/661960\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia&#8217;s matchup set for the College Basketball Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/west-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Virginia<\/a><\/b> will participate in the College Basketball Crown, and the opening round matchup is set.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountaineers will take on <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/stanford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford<\/a><\/b> on April 2 at 8 p.m, and the game will broadcast on FS1. The winner of that game faces the winner of Creighton-Rutgers.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal are KenPom&#8217;s No. 58 team nationally, and bolster a 20-12 overall record. They lost to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh<\/a><\/b> in the ACC tournament, which ended their NCAA Tournament hopes.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia sits beside them at No. 59 in KenPom&#8217;s rankings.<\/p>\n<p>In total, there are eight teams in the single-elimination bracket. They are WVU, Stanford, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/creighton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Creighton<\/a><\/b>, <b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/rutgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rutgers<\/a><\/b>, Minneosta, Oklahoma,\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorado<\/a><\/b>, and Baylor. The Big 12 leads the way with three teams accepting an invite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Virginia will participate in the College Basketball Crown, and the opening round matchup is set. The Mountaineers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":661961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-661960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116244425347509856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}