Players from Monmouth, St. Bonaventure and even Michigan State got the bad news the way so many folks do these days — through social media.
The bracket that leaked on Twitter while CBS was in the middle of unveiling the March Madness pairings turned out to be 100 percent accurate. That left a number of teams searching for answers a bit earlier than they’d hoped — and it gave the NCAA something else to explain, beyond the selection committee’s annual handful of unexpected — inexplicable? — decisions.
For Michigan State, the news was that it was a No.