Late season push puts Mountaineers in tournament

MORGANTOWN — Written off and left for dead when it opened its Big 12 schedule with five consecutive losses, West Virginia made a stunning comeback and rode its late-season success into the NCAA Tournament that most observers thought they would never see. On Sunday night the Mountaineers, who finished at 19-14 in the regular season and the Big 12 Tournament, was awarded the ninth seed in the Southern Region and learned its opponent will be regional rival Maryland, the eighth seed, at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday...