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[QUOTE="Bills Fan, post: 4573348, member: 8262"]
So Seattle has a close university that could have been in contention?  Portland next year when no local school made it this year?

Yes Chicago, Indy, St. Louis and Wichita (and those are just a few examples of more centralized cities with necessary facilities) have major universities within reasonably close commuting distances.

To pick up on Geno's comments this morning, place a Regional in the PAC time zone, one in the eastern and one in the southern portions of the country and one in a more central city.  Why would that approach be less reasonable than what we have this year and next year, and I don't even know if 2024 has already been decided.

While you say that the Women's tournament is a money loser, that might well be true for the NCAA organization, but I can assure you that the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, attractions. local travel and unions, just to name a few) are hungry (no pun in tended) to host even much smaller events.  Ask sports commissions and local regional leaders about this and you will get overwhelmingly positive answers.  If you don't think that is true then ask yourself why cities have been bidding on all of these events over the last  XXX number of  years.
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