George Washington's Maurice Creek celebrates after his team scored during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against VCU in the semifinal round of the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament at the Barclays Center in New York, Saturday, March 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON – A T-shirt mix-up by the NCAA has Georgetown — not George Washington — in the NCAA tournament.
The NCAA was selling "March Madness Men's Basketball Championship" T-shirts on its website Monday. The shirts featured the logos of all 68 teams — except that some of them had a gray "G'' for Georgetown instead of a buff-and-blue "GW."
The schools are separated by only a dozen or so blocks in D.C., and there's plenty of rivalry. GW fans cheered at Sunday night's selection party when they saw that Georgetown wasn't selected for the tournament.
The Colonials are in the NCAAs for the first time since 2007, while the Hoyas are out for the first time since 2009.
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