03-06-2012, 02:52 AM
(03-05-2012, 10:29 PM)Viking_Guy link Wrote:I think the bigger issue is that no one but Stanford and Gonzaga are bidding to host; I think none of the Pac-12 teams are confident enough of making the tourney year to year to take the risk of a "neutral" pod coming to their site and losing money. Tara mentioned that she didn't understand why UCB didn't bid to hostI think the L.A. schools are not confident enough that their home teams could draw enough to take a risk. Otherwise, maybe the conference could help guarantee a PAC-12 sub-regional each year.
(UCLA and USC each had only one game at home with over 2000 in attendance. Tell me again why the women's tourney is in L.A.?)
Hmmm... maybe moving to a system where conferences, rather than schools, provide the sites might be a better way to do things. I guess that's less compelling with geography having little relevance for conferences.
Are rules/guidelines for selection listed somewhere? (Also, are rules/guidelines for placing teams in the brackets available somewhere?)
(For anyone interested, the 2013 sites are listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_NCAA_W...Tournament
Stanford is one of the first round sites. But next would be Spokane (900 miles, 0 time zones), then Boulder (1300 miles, 1 time zone), then Lubbock (1400 miles, 2 time zones), Waco (1800 miles, 2 time zones), College Station (1800 miles, 2 time zones).
Avg home attendance WBB:
Stanford: 4250 (max 7329)Â Colo: 2839Â K.al: 2076 (max 7864)Â Ariz: 1900 ASU: 1804Â OSU: 1789 Ore: 1526Â UCLA: 1110Â USC: 1099 Utah: 775
Tenn: 14,414Â Â Conn: 9165
Some MBB home attendance numbers:
K.al: 8532 (max 11877)Â UCLA: 6352 (max 9785)Â Stanford: 5393 (max 6899)Â USC: 3970 (max 8474)
Men+Women:
K.al: 10608Â Stanford: 9643;Â UCLA: 7462Â USC: 5069