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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 2625178, member: 7492"] cockhrnleghrn-I don't mean to call you out but the attendance for the two games in Greensboro were 6,286 and 6,364 and at those games were North Carolina, Florida State and Arizona State so I find it highly unlikely that SC had 6,000 of those fans there as NC is a mere 56 miles from there and FSU would have traveled as well. The stadium hold 21,500 for basketball so even if you were 2/3's of the crowd, that's still a poor showing considering the teams participating. There are two main points for all to consider reading this: 1. Teams don't travel as well as fans think they do once you get outside of a 4-5 hour drive. Heck, Greensboro from Chapel Hill is 56 miles, Columbia 183 miles and Tallahassee 560 miles. 2. WCBB attendance is solely tied to the school's radius except for the Final Four. The NCAA needs to rethink it's strategy and go back to school venues like it did in 2014 for schools to host. Again, don't give me the "neutral court argument" as: a) all the other NCAA sports play their rounds on campus venues at the lower seeded team until the final round (s)-think Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Field Hockey b) the sport of WCBB is not a national phenomenon despite our efforts here. It is regional, based on those teams success. I really don't want to see 3,750 people in a 20,000 seat Rupp Arena for the Lexington regional nor 3,500 fans in KC. What energy there is just gets sucked up by the empty space. [/QUOTE]

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