NCAA Tourny Sites 2009 & 2010

[fccy]

Iowa hosts this year at CHA (2009)

ISU hosts next year at Hilton (2010)

NCAA.com - The Official Web Site of the NCAA

I have seen on here that we host in 2011; NCAA has not officially announced that yet.

[BenEClone]

First and Second Round site may be less relevant as we creep up in seed. Few teams travel as well as well, and fewer places will give the home court advantage that Hilton has. Regardless of site and seed, to advance you have to win. If we're the highest seed on site - we have a good chance to win.

Of the bracket considerations and principles, avoiding rematches is not the most prominent. Avoiding a conference foe would be more important. The more Big XII teams in, the more likely we could end up in Iowa City.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/...andProcedu.pdf

[mred]

Some interesting/pertinent rules from the document:

There shall not be more than two teams from a conference in one region and conference teams shall not meet each other prior to the regional final unless a ninth team is selected from a conference.

This rule really handcuffs the committee a lot. The Big 12 will likely get 7 teams in.

The committee shall attempt to avoid moving a team or a conference out of its natural region or geographic area an inordinate number of times and will examine the previous three tournament brackets to determine the number of times a team or conference has been assigned out of its natural region.

For ISU:
2008: Des Moines
2007: Minneapolis
2006: WNIT
It may be our turn to be sent far away.

If possible, rematches of regular-season games should be avoided in the first- and second-rounds.

This is certainly not as important as the conference one above (that one is a rule and this one is a guideline) but I can see the committee placing a team like Kansas State in Iowa City and sending us to, say, Notre Dame or East Lansing.

[mred]

For reference, I'll just paste the tournament sites for this season below:

SUBREGIONALS

March 21 and 23

The Pit/Bob King Court
Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of New Mexico, host

McKenzie Arena
Chattanooga, Tennessee
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, host

Nationwide Arena
Columbus, Ohio
The Ohio State University, host

Arena at Gwinnett
Duluth, Georgia
University of Georgia, host

Galen Center
Los Angeles, California
University of Southern California, host

Louis Brown Athletic Center
Piscataway, New Jersey
Rutgers University, host

Cox Arena
San Diego, California
San Diego State University, host

Bank of America Arena
Seattle, Washington
University of Washington, host


March 22 and 24

Pete Maravich Assembly Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisiana State University, host

E.A. Diddle Arena
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Western Kentucky University, host

Comcast Center
College Park, Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park, host

Jack Breslin Student Events Center
East Lansing, Michigan
Michigan State University, host

Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Iowa City, Iowa
University of Iowa, host

United Spirit Arena
Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech University, host

Joyce Center
Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame, host

Harry A. Gampel Pavilion
Storrs, Connecticut
University of Connecticut, host

[dustinal]

Iowa hosts this year at CHA (2009)

ISU hosts next year at Hilton (2010)

NCAA.com - The Official Web Site of the NCAA

I have seen on here that we host in 2011; NCAA has not officially announced that yet.

I was one that said recently that I thought we were a host site in 2011 because I thought I heard that somewhere. But you're right, I don't think that's been announced. Here's an article from cyclones.com from a year ago that only mentions us as a host site in 2010...

ISU Earns Nod for 2010 NCAA Women's Hoops - Iowa State University Athletics Official Web Site - www.CYCLONES.com - Iowa State Cyclones Sports

If that was posted a year ago, I would think we will hear whether we'll be a host site in 2011 soon?

[mred]

REGIONALS

March 28 and 30

Berkeley Regional
Haas Pavilion
Berkeley, California
University of California, host

Raleigh Regional
RBC Center
Raleigh, North Carolina
North Carolina State University, host

March 29 and 31
Oklahoma City Regional

Ford Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Big 12 Conference, host

Trenton Regional
Sovereign Bank Arena
Trenton, New Jersey
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Rider University, hosts

FINAL FOUR

April 5 and 7
Scottrade Center
St. Louis, Missouri
Missouri Valley Conference, host

[mred]

I believe you can host subregionals two years out of every three. We aren't hosting this year, so I expect us to host in 2011.

I looked briefly for the hosting rules but didn't find them. I'll look some more.

[d4nim4l]

Correct me if I am wrong, but don't they usually have two separate regions playing at each site? I remember last year we obviously had the region we were in playing there then whatever region FSU and OSU were in.

It is very conceivable that we end up in Iowa City with K-State and not in the same region. Put Iowa and K-State in the same region.

[jdoggivjc]

Correct me if I am wrong, but don't they usually have two separate regions playing at each site? I remember last year we obviously had the region we were in playing there then whatever region FSU and OSU were in.

It is very conceivable that we end up in Iowa City with K-State and not in the same region. Put Iowa and K-State in the same region.

Nope, they changed the rules back this year - only one region per site now.

[sodakjoe]

Correct me if I am wrong, but don't they usually have two separate regions playing at each site? I remember last year we obviously had the region we were in playing there then whatever region FSU and OSU were in.

It is very conceivable that we end up in Iowa City with K-State and not in the same region. Put Iowa and K-State in the same region.

They used to only do 8 sites, with 4 first round games at each site. Now, it's 16 sites with 2 first round games at each site.

[d4nim4l]

Nope, they changed the rules back this year - only one region per site now.

Well that isn't good at all then.

[theshadow]

Well that isn't good at all then.

Iowa is poised to tank. They are down to one healthy post player, and are just 14-9, 7-5 in the Big Ten.

[SplitIdentity]

Iowa is poised to tank. They are down to one healthy post player, and are just 14-9, 7-5 in the Big Ten.

Huh? Iowa has won 6 of their last 7 games and have the easiest games coming up. Penn State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Northwestern should give the Hawks at least 4 wins, and a shot at Ohio State.

Iowas OOC schedule will DEFINITELY work in their favor, with losses coming to Kansas, Duke, California, and South Florida, and wins over Texas Tech and Iowa State.

[theshadow]

Huh? Iowa has won 6 of their last 7 games and have the easiest games coming up. Penn State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Northwestern should give the Hawks at least 4 wins, and a shot at Ohio State.

They'll still need Hamlin, though. They are 2-2 without her (last 4 games). One of those wins was a 3OT home win over Penn State (3-8).

[jdoggivjc]

Huh? Iowa has won 6 of their last 7 games and have the easiest games coming up. Penn State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Northwestern should give the Hawks at least 4 wins, and a shot at Ohio State.

Iowas OOC schedule will DEFINITELY work in their favor, with losses coming to Kansas, Duke, California, and South Florida, and wins over Texas Tech and Iowa State.

Methinks the ones bolded aren't going to help you out nearly as much as you think they are (especially losing by 20+ to Kansas), although Duke, Cal, and ISU will add to their resume. But losing by 24 to Duke and by 33 at home to Cal is going to look just as bad as our beat-down at Stanford. You don't get near as much credit as you would like to think when you lose that ugly...