NCAA Tournament Single Site

[UCTitleTown]

Hopefully, the vaccine will be available. Fingers crossed. I'm a first responder, so I'll be one of the first in line.

 

[HeGotGame]

Let's not call it the NCAA Tournament. This is far from it.

You stink

 

[HCCForever]

First national championship to be played in a regular sized arena in what, 4 decades?

First time since 1996 when UMass was involved and later vacated their appearance in the Final Four at Continental Airlines Arena.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Did they actually provide an honest rationale for why Indianapolis? Its not a major city, yes it is in the middle of the country but is not an airline hub so flights might not be a cheap there as in other cities. Was there a lottery?

 

[Edward Sargent]

Right now you can say the same for just about every state. The question is whether they are doing anything to try and mitigate the spread of the virus

 

[UCSouth]

Did they actually provide an honest rationale for why Indianapolis? Its not a major city, yes it is in the middle of the country but is not an airline hub so flights might not be a cheap there as in other cities. Was there a lottery?

It doesn't need to be an airline hub because there won't be any fans. I would imagine that teams will quarantine until they lose and then go home.

 

[superjohn]

Did they actually provide an honest rationale for why Indianapolis? Its not a major city, yes it is in the middle of the country but is not an airline hub so flights might not be a cheap there as in other cities. Was there a lottery?

Indianapolis is probably the biggest conference city in the country, it's set up perfectly for this sort of stuff.

 

[HCCForever]

Indianapolis is probably the biggest conference city in the country, it's set up perfectly for this sort of stuff.

I was at a convention for about 50K people a few years ago which used Lucas as one of our sites. Indianapolis worked out quite well.

 

[uconnfan68]

Did they actually provide an honest rationale for why Indianapolis? Its not a major city, yes it is in the middle of the country but is not an airline hub so flights might not be a cheap there as in other cities. Was there a lottery?

Home of the NCAA offices.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Indianapolis is probably the biggest conference city in the country, it's set up perfectly for this sort of stuff.

Well I guess retirement has taken me out of the conference circuit - who knew. It wouldn't be my first choice for destination though

 

[Edward Sargent]

It doesn't need to be an airline hub because there won't be any fans. I would imagine that teams will quarantine until they lose and then go home.

True

 

[HCCForever]

Home of the NCAA offices.

In addition to being home of the NCAA offices, the Final Four was already scheduled to play at Lucas Oil Stadium on April 3 and 5th.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Sounds familiar as we have the same problems with messaging here in Florida.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Teams are going to have no margin of error this season. Realistically, teams will play 22-25 games, so a 15-7 record out of the P6 is going to be like a 4-5 seed. A single bad loss or cold stretch is going to be fatal because there just won't be enough games to make it up.