NCAA announces sites

[Jennifer]

Good news (for OU fans anyway).
The LNC will be host to the 2004 Midwest Regional.
Other sites are Hartford, CT; Norfolk, VA; and Tempe, AZ.

The 2005 Midwest regional is in Kansas City.
The 2006 Midwest is in San Antonio, and the West in Albuquerque.
http://www.ncaa.com/releases/makepage.cgi/champsites/2002070102cs.htm

Also, the 2003 subregional sites are listed here. I just don't think this will fly in the long run...
KSU, CU, OU, and Texas Tech will be hosts. http://www.ncaa.com/releases/makepage.cgi/champsites/2002070101cs.htm

[BenEClone]

Any indication on how seeding and hosting will influence brackets in the 2003 1st and 2nd rounds?

[swok34]

yippee! that's too cool....now, we just have to make sure basketball fans get their butts in those seats if OU happens to not be there.

Does anyone know with the new changes to subregionals.....can a team that's hosting a subregional also play at home for 2003?

I know that if you are hosting a regional AND a subregional, you cannot play in the subregional, though you are placed in that regional to "play" your way home.

[YCN]

Huge change for 2003 - no automatic hosting for the top 4 seeds in each region. This is a big step toward providing a more balanced and fair competition.

There must have been an application process to host the subregions in 2003, otherwise the NCAA likely wouldn't have awarded subregionals to teams like Georgia, Colorado or NC State.

Was anybody aware of an NCAA call for applications to host? If there was such a public notice, I completely missed it.

[kate dawg]

I find it fascinating that for all her whining last year about Iowa State, Tennessee is slated for both subregional and regional hosting...as are Stanford and New Mexico.

I think it was an application process...it had to be.

[Moooooo]

I'm not sure I like this. I wonder if there's a stipulation that teams can't host two years in a row. I hope so.

Also, I sure hope the seeding committee doesn't pull the same crap used by softball and baseball, where geography was the key determinant. If so, count on Texas going to Ruston, Norman, Albuquerque, or Lubbock.

Actually, this is gonna be like baseball. The 16 host teams will pretty much determine other teams' fates. This has to make it more difficult on the committee when the time comes. If LSU, for example, is deemed to be a #2 seed, does that mean they have to "fit them in" to a site opposite the sub-regional where the #3 seed will be?

Mark my word, several teams will get the short end of the stick, including some of the host teams.

[mred]

Originally posted by kate dawg:
I find it fascinating that for all her whining last year about Iowa State, Tennessee is slated for both subregional and regional hosting.

I assume that she will voluntarily decline to host four games in a row, since it is simply not fair... http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/wink.gif

[metromaniac]

Due to the need to plan ahead a few years, for obvious scheduling and availability purposes, this falls under the maxim----"Life isn't always fair" --- even in womens college hoops.

[kate dawg]

Yeah, right mred. Right after pigs fly. I can't wait to hear what she has to say. I guess the squeaky wheel gets the oil, right people?

[KSUron]

Originally posted by YCN:
There must have been an application process to host the subregions in 2003, - Was anybody aware of an NCAA call for applications to host? If there was such a public notice, I completely missed it.

Yes they did have an applications process. I remember a news item from KSU on the subject early this year. I assume the notice was to Div. 1 AD's or other likely sites like nuetural conference tourney sites such as KC Muni Auditorium. I did not see a public notice either.

[KSUron]

Originally posted by mred:
I assume that she will voluntarily decline to host four games in a row, since it is simply not fair... http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/wink.gif

I would think that Coach Summitt will host four games if she gets the chance. She would not do it for competitive advantage but only out of a civic resposiblity to WBB. http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/wink.gif Thompson Bohling is, after all, the largest campus site and we would not want to shut out any fans now would we? http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/wink.gif

I would think that if the chance ever came up Geno and all the rest of us would do the same. I would hope that NOT all of us would be hipocrits about it. Geno & Pat both needed a little cheese with all that whine. http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/smile.gif

[KSUron]

Originally posted by swok34:
yippee! that's too cool....now, we just have to make sure basketball fans get their butts in those seats if OU happens to not be there.

I don't know about the hosting rules but I will be shocked if OU does not make the NCAA tourney. With the coaching and player talent that OU will have they will be in the dance.

[PeachBasket]

Originally posted by KSUron:
I would think that if the chance ever came up Geno and all the rest of us would do the same. I would hope that NOT all of us would be hipocrits about it. Geno & Pat both needed a little cheese with all that whine. http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/smile.gif

Although I've never seen it in print, it's been posted several times on the Boneyard that there is a reason UConn doesn't host regionals: Geno doesn't want them applying for it (although UConn routinely hosts sub-regionals.) I admit I'm kind of hazy on the details. I can state with certainty they haven't hosted a regional in the past four years, and I find it hard to believe that the NCAA would turn down Gampel as a site, while accepting Ames and The Bowling Alley.

This has left a gaping hole in one of the best wbb markets in the country. Apparently Fairfield U. has now seen the opening and jumped at the chance to make some waves, and possibly $$$, as the host, and has been awarded an upcoming East Regional (2006?) in conjunction with the new arena down in Bridgeport, CT. It says a lot about NCAA expectations for attendance at regionals that they accepted the Fairfield/Bridgeport bid. It's a beautiful little arena they have down there in Bridgeport, but the emphasis is all over the "little", I think it seats less than 9,000 for basketball.

[KSUron]

You make a good point PeachBasket. With KSU averaging over 8,000 fans for home games last year, including three sell-outs at over 13,340 its hard for me to imagine having NCAA tourney games at sites like Bridgeport or Stanford which I believe seats only 7,500 or so. For that matter Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City is pretty small too. on the other hand its not that easy for some of our fans to travel long distances for games so it may be that it won't be that big a problem. I hope they are wrong and we sell the joints out.

[swok34]

I think it was stated last season that Tennessee CAN'T play at home in both it's subregional and regional......

don't they have to go "away" and work their way back home for the regional? We talked about this last season when Iowa State had the opportunity to play it's 1st 4 games at home; and I think it was stated then that ISU was lucky they picked 2002 to host a regional rather than 2003 when the rules would change.

[Jennifer]

Swok, I think that's right. I recall reading that again more recently.

[swok34]

KSUron.....Kansas City hosted a regional a couple of years ago, of course, they had all those ISU Cyclony fans in attendance...

I'm curious how Oklahoma fans will respond if OU is NOT in the house, of course I'll go, just not certain how other women's basketball fans in this area will respond. It will certainly be interesting to see as well as next year's attendance figures.

Oklahoma City just built a new arena that holds around 20,000...
I believe. There is a men's regional there in 2003 that has already sold out. I've heard talk of them putting in a bid to host a women's regional and also the Big XII BB tourney, since there are now 2 arena's.

[KSUron]

I think it was implied in Coach Patterson's comments about hosting the first two rounds and clearly stated in Coach Sharp's comments that both are expecting to play the first two rounds on their own floor if they make the tourney and survive the first round.

Unless I hear somthing definitive otherwise I am going to take it on faith that that's how it will be this year. I would question whether you would be allowed to host four straight rounds this year.

[TXSNOS]

If a school is designated to host a subregional (i.e., first and second round games) and they make the tournament, they do play at home: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/3584298.htm

TXSNOS

[This message has been edited by TXSNOS (edited 07-02-2002).]