AS with the previous Washington Post article, I'll relay that the UConn men say "Hi"
At least with the women's tournament, there has been a historical trend of doing this for revenue reasons. That was never the case in the men's tournament where..
The UConn men lost to Florida in 1994 in... FLORIDA
Then lost to UCLA in 1995 in.... Oakland, CA
then lost to North Carolina in 1998 in.... Greensboro NC
We stopped paying attention to that crap after we won it all in 1999, but the pattern was annoying at the time