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[QUOTE="Gamecockfan77, post: 2625167, member: 6414"]
The reason South Carolina hasn't had regional sites is not because our cities didn't care to bid on them.  South Carolina, the state of, has been banned from hosting NCAA events, until recently, for something like 20 years.

As soon as that ban was lifted, Greenville and Columbia and perhaps Charleston, I don't know for sure, began bidding on the NCAA tournament sties.  Greenville had a men's regional, will have the SEC WBB tournament several times, and will host a women's regional soon.  Columbia is getting the NCAA Men next season.

If the NCAA doesn't think that South Carolina fans will sell more tickets than most any other fan base (of course I exclude UConn -- as always you are superior) that's the NCAAs error.   Certainly the 2500 people that showed up to watch Notre Dame in Lexington that time couldn't have been all that impressive to them.  But hey, it's their tournament and it was too much trouble for Muffett to go to Texas  or out west then it's understandable.  USC will go where they tell them.
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