[ColoradoTree]

FYI, the current status is that the women's semifinals will not start before 4 pm ET at least.  Weather delay again.

So why is the NCAA Championship consistently held in areas where rain is a constant threat, instead of places, say in the western United States, where weather conditions are more consistently favorable :) ?

EDIT: Another delay.  Now men's matches won't resume until 4 pm ET at the earliest.  Wondering if they're considering moving the women indoors soon, as they are no longer estimating a start time for the women's semis.

VG

Hosting in rainy locales doesn't look to change anytime soon, either, as Orlando, FL will now host every other year at the new USTA National Campus (where Stanford beat Oklahoma State earlier this year).  It sometimes rains in Florida, I'm told. 

Regarding today, it doesn't look like the rain is supposed to let up anytime soon, either.  (Tomorrow and Wednesday look rainy, too.) If I'm the NCAA, I move the men's semis inside to finish this afternoon (which stinks for those guys, but the alternative is to not finish).  UNC-Georgia has two matches still going, so they get two of the four indoor courts.  UVA-Ohio State has three matches going, so the two closest to completion get to go first.  (UVA is up 3-1 and has match point at #6 right now, so that court should get one of the courts, while the match at #1, which is in a third-set tiebreaker) should get the other court.  It's already 3:30 in Georgia right now, thought, so the odds you're going to get in two women's semis tonight seems unlikely, and it doesn't seem fair to do one today and one tomorrow.  Instead, you finish the men's semis today, do the women's semis tomorrow morning (flipping a coin to determine who goes first), play the men's final as scheduled tomorrow (indoors, unfortunately), and play the women's final on Tuesday. 

[ColoradoTree]

FYI, the current status is that the women's semifinals will not start before 4 pm ET at least.  Weather delay again.

So why is the NCAA Championship consistently held in areas where rain is a constant threat, instead of places, say in the western United States, where weather conditions are more consistently favorable :) ?

EDIT: Another delay.  Now men's matches won't resume until 4 pm ET at the earliest.  Wondering if they're considering moving the women indoors soon, as they are no longer estimating a start time for the women's semis.

VG

Hosting in rainy locales doesn't look to change anytime soon, either, as Orlando, FL will now host every other year at the new USTA National Campus (where Stanford beat Oklahoma State earlier this year).  It sometimes rains in Florida, I'm told. 

Regarding today, it doesn't look like the rain is supposed to let up anytime soon, either.  (Tomorrow and Wednesday look rainy, too.) If I'm the NCAA, I move the men's semis inside to finish this afternoon (which stinks for those guys, but the alternative is to not finish).  UNC-Georgia has two matches still going, so they get two of the four indoor courts.  UVA-Ohio State has three matches going, so the two closest to completion get to go first.  (UVA is up 3-1 and has match point at #6 right now, so that court should get one of the courts, while the match at #1, which is in a third-set tiebreaker) should get the other court.  It's already 3:30 in Georgia right now, thought, so the odds you're going to get in two women's semis tonight seems unlikely, and it doesn't seem fair to do one today and one tomorrow.  Instead, you finish the men's semis today, do the women's semis tomorrow morning (flipping a coin to determine who goes first), play the men's final as scheduled tomorrow (indoors, unfortunately), and play the women's final on Tuesday.