Playoff site selection criteria

[RocketDawg]

Anybody know what the site selection criteria are for women's basketball? Is one of them to make sure that UConn has what effectively amounts to a home game most of the way?

[TheRef]

Anybody know what the site selection criteria are for women's basketball? Is one of them to make sure that UConn has what effectively amounts to a home game most of the way?

I think it's just a bid system.

[yjnkdawg]

Anybody know what the site selection criteria are for women's basketball? Is one of them to make sure that UConn has what effectively amounts to a home game most of the way?

Ref is correct and the four sites won their bids in 2014 to host the 2017 Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games.

[RocketDawg]

Looks like they'd put UConn in some other regional then. They send South Carolina all the way across the country as a #1 seed, but basically leave UConn where they can spend the nights at home in their own beds. It needs to be a little more equitable.

Also ... based on the bid information (which makes sense) ... Greenville, SC must have a heckuva marketing department to be able to host the SEC tournament as well as early rounds of the NCAA.

[TheRef]

Looks like they'd put UConn in some other regional then. They send South Carolina all the way across the country as a #1 seed, but basically leave UConn where they can spend the nights at home in their own beds. It needs to be a little more equitable.

Also ... based on the bid information (which makes sense) ... Greenville, SC must have a heckuva marketing department to be able to host the SEC tournament as well as early rounds of the NCAA.

Greenville is hosting because NC lost their ability to host NCAA games due to HB2. Not to get political in here, but that's the truth. The NCAA has given the State of North Carolina a deadline by when they have to repeal HB2 in order to host any pre-determined location events until 2022.

[RocketDawg]

Greenville is hosting because NC lost their ability to host NCAA games due to HB2. Not to get political in here, but that's the truth. The NCAA has given the State of North Carolina a deadline by when they have to repeal HB2 in order to host any pre-determined location events until 2022.

Yeah, I know ... but there are plenty of other states and cities that could host. I guess Greenville just saw the opportunity and hopped on it.

[TheRef]

Yeah, I know ... but there are plenty of other states and cities that could host. I guess Greenville just saw the opportunity and hopped on it.

Yupp. Mississippi won't be able to host a pre-determined site because of the same reason, but with the flag.

[Tbonewannabe]

Ref is correct and the four sites won their bids in 2014 to host the 2017 Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games.

Pretty safe bet for Bridgeport since UConn is always a high seed. It would be like if Birmingham could host a BCS game and always get Bama if they were available.

[RocketDawg]

Pretty safe bet for Bridgeport since UConn is always a high seed. It would be like if Birmingham could host a BCS game and always get Bama if they were available.

That's fine ... but why not put UConn in Stockton or some other relatively obscure place? Why give them home games? Presumably there's no justifiable reason to send them to Bridgeport. Is Bridgeport's bid based on UConn being assigned to their region?

[Ifyouonlyknew]

That's fine ... but why not put UConn in Stockton or some other relatively obscure place? Why give them home games? Presumably there's no justifiable reason to send them to Bridgeport. Is Bridgeport's bid based on UConn being assigned to their region?

Because as the #1 overall seed you get priority of location. You get the region closest to your campus. It's no different than in the college football playoff the #1 seed gets the game closest to their campus. No different than Villanova being the #1 seed & getting the East region where they would've played at MSG which is only a hour and a half from Philly.

[smootness]

That's fine ... but why not put UConn in Stockton or some other relatively obscure place? Why give them home games? Presumably there's no justifiable reason to send them to Bridgeport. Is Bridgeport's bid based on UConn being assigned to their region?

They'll always put the #1 overall seed as close to home as possible. They try to do that will all 1 seeds, thus Baylor in OKC. South Carolina was likely the #4 1 seed, so they get sent to wherever's left.

The women's tournament clearly doesn't care about giving teams a home court advantage since the first 2 rounds are literally played on a team's home court.

[yjnkdawg]

Looks like they'd put UConn in some other regional then. They send South Carolina all the way across the country as a #1 seed, but basically leave UConn where they can spend the nights at home in their own beds. It needs to be a little more equitable.

Also ... based on the bid information (which makes sense) ... Greenville, SC must have a heckuva marketing department to be able to host the SEC tournament as well as early rounds of the NCAA.


South Carolina has been a No. 1 seed for the past 4 years and has had to travel out of the eastern time zone 3 of those 4 years. The NCAA tries to do it according to geographic preference, but what smoot said about being the 4th No. 1 seed, and just 4 regional sites, that were determined in 2014 makes sense.