The Lunatic has been desperately trying to figure out how to pull box scores from other locations as well as come up with a nice looking bracketology page. I have a nervous feeling that I am going to enter the tournament already exhausted. That should be good for everyone in Stomping the Lunatic! Anyways, I was curious about how the games were going and ran across this fascinating story.

Utah Valley plans to leave the WAC for the Big West at the end of the school year. The Wolverines also happen to be the regular season champions of the conference in their final season.

But maybe most importantly, the university is caught up in a legal dispute with the conference over the $1 million fee for leaving according to the conference’s contracts. They originally planned to mot allow the school to play in any of the conference championship games but a judge in Utah provided the school a temporary injunction to allow them to play.

Apparently, part of that order directed the university to place the $1 million in escrow with the court, which the school has not yet done. So, on Tuesday, the league’s board of directors demanded that if the escrow account is not paid by 7 pm EST today, they would not be allowed to play because “it would be a member not in good standing.”

I have no clue to legal standing of any of this – since I am simply going off a couple of articles that all came out a few hours ago. But it certainly has major consequences if a regular season champion is suddenly removed from their tournament in a one-bid conference.

Will be interesting to see what happens over the next 24 hours before the opening game between Abilene Christian and Tarleton State (since I would assume that if they remove Utah Valley, there would no longer be a need for the play-in game).