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I like that it's close, but I wish it was in a bigger city with adequate public transportation.
And I’m glad it’s in a small/medium size downtown where you can park your car and walk ( or rent an electric bike) to the game and 100 bars/restaurants without being mugged. Shuttles are available. Busses are available if you want to leave the downtown area. You don’t need public transportation but there is enough.
 
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I love Greenville. The downtown area has plenty of small restaurants and bars - they play the tournament games non-stop. Every year I’ve been it’s been bigger and better. The year they had it in Nashville there was no branding and it was so crowded from other things going on you couldn’t get in anywhere.
 
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Atlanta, Charlotte and NOLA would be possible. I know I'm in the minority, but I'm not a fan of Greenville.
I would love for it to stay in Greenville every other year. But I would like to see it rotate with a “neutral”, small city Western site . Maybe New Orleans but it can get too crowded. Shreveport? A smaller TEXAS CITY?

Greenville is great for us and Georgia and Tennessee but I would understand if Kim or Vic aren’t crazy about it being there every year. No Dallas or Houston.
 
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I would love for it to stay in Greenville every other year. But I would like to see it rotate with a “neutral”, small city Western site . Maybe New Orleans but it can get too crowded. Shreveport? A smaller TEXAS CITY?

Greenville is great for us and Georgia and Tennessee but I would understand if Kim or Vic aren’t crazy about it being there every year. No Dallas or Houston.
What about San Antonio? It seemed to work for the NCAA tournament. Or Austin?
 
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What about San Antonio? It seemed to work for the NCAA tournament. Or Austin?
Austin is a school’s hometown. Frown

San Antonio would be great. Love their riverwalk. Alamo is worth seeing
 
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And I’m glad it’s in a small/medium size downtown where you can park your car and walk ( or rent an electric bike) to the game and 100 bars/restaurants without being mugged. Shuttles are available. Busses are available if you want to leave the downtown area. You don’t need public transportation but there is enough.

Muggings occur all the time in small to medium-sized cities too. In the dozens of times I've been to NYC the closest I came was a guy on Canal St who was tried to sell me a gold Rolex for $50. I always feel like a hick from the sticks though.
 
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Muggings occur all the time in small to medium-sized cities too. In the dozens of times I've been to NYC the closest I came was a guy on Canal St who was tried to sell me a gold Rolex for $50. I always feel like a hick from the sticks though.
And panhandlers are everywhere in any town that has enough pedestrian activity to be worth their time.

I have an odd personal quirk. The only panhandlers that irritate me are the ones that ask: “ Can I ask you a question?” I have to restrain myself from answering: “yeah one. And you just used it up.”

Oh well, it’s part of urban life. Rural too sometimes around convenience stores
 
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Single-game tickets went on sale this morning, and the cheapest available for UConn-South Carolina is up to $160. Wonder if it's a ticket broker thing, because there are $30 tickets available for the Texas game and $40 for LSU.
 

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After watching Ionescu’s performance in the past 2 finals (and the 2019 Final Four), I’m ready to retroactively anoint the 2020 South Carolina squad as champions of the non-existent tournament. Congrats on another title for Dawn and Co!
 
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After watching Ionescu’s performance in the past 2 finals (and the 2019 Final Four), I’m ready to retroactively anoint the 2020 South Carolina squad as champions of the non-existent tournament. Congrats on another title for Dawn and Co!
Waive the garnet banner high gals
 

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Well it’s about time you finally came around.

;)
I will say, at the time I was pretty firmly in the Oregon > SC group, but watching the relevant players perform in big moments and seeing Dawn's success compared to Graves over the last 4 years, I'd probably bet differently today. I still feel robbed though, that would've been one of the most exciting tournaments ever.
 
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I felt bed not learning the 3/4 one seeds. Baylor? Maryland? UConn? Louisville? MsSt?&
 

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I felt bed not learning the 3/4 one seeds. Baylor? Maryland? UConn? Louisville? MsSt?&
There was a clear top-3 all year. South Carolina-Oregon-Baylor (in some order). Number 4 was a turnstile.

Baylor did lose to Iowa St right before season was canceled. The last poll was before that I think.
 

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There was a clear top-3 all year. South Carolina-Oregon-Baylor (in some order). Number 4 was a turnstile.

Baylor did lose to Iowa St right before season was canceled. The last poll was before that I think.
Number 4 was projected to be Maryland with Louisville as the 2 in that regional. Maryland was red hot entering the tournament and had a solid roster, though Maryland had a propensity to bow out early in the tournament the previous 3-4 years (and following couple of years).

The top 3 teams (Baylor/Oregon/SC) effectively had home regionals and would’ve been massive favorites to get to the final four.
 

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