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#31
Multi-Regional Topics / Re: 2024 NCAA Tournament
March 08, 2024, 10:52:08 PM

Did you see Region 8?  Chicago deserved to be ranked there.
#32
Well, this is my last round.  I only have four teams left.  East selections.

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 03, 2024, 02:48:57 PM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 02, 2024, 12:20:23 AM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on February 28, 2024, 01:03:17 PMRound 1
Rowan
Worcester State
Eastern
Anderson
Wisconsin Lutheran
Geneva
New Paltz
UT-Dallas

Round 2
Christopher Newport
Oswego
Whitworth
Catholic
Hope
Illinois College
John Carroll
Tufts

Round 3
Platteville
Guilford
NWU
WashU

Round 4
Trinity
Trine
Hampden-Sydney
Calvin
#33
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 03, 2024, 02:46:50 PM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 02, 2024, 12:48:45 AM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on February 28, 2024, 01:11:35 PMRound 1
Marcellus Ross, Rowan
DJ Campbell, Stockton
Logan Pearson, Platteville
Blake Campbell, Berry
Aaron Nkrumah, Worcester State
Jack Spellman, Stevens
Steph Baxter, Babson
Donovan Souter, UTD

Round 2
Nick Hurowitz, Farmingdale
Enzo Sechi, Catholic
Luke Frazier, JCU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll, PSUH
Ali Sabet, Loras
Tanner Wiegerink, Hope
Khalif Mears, Rowan
Jeremiah Sparks, Oswego

Round 3
Ja'Zere Noel, Rowan
Peter Lash, NWU
Tyler Dearman, Guilford
Ben Probst, Platteville

Round 4
Henry Vetter, Trinity
Ryan Clements, HSC
Uchena Egekeze, Calvin
Cortez Garland, Trine
#34

Schleusner set the single game record (for the second time in this tournament) and the overall tournament record for rebounds tonight.  It took her just three games to break a record set over six.
#35

It could simply be that Trine doesn't have a mechanism for pre-sales.  It doesn't appear they do any pre-sales ever, except for season passes.
#36
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 07, 2024, 11:08:12 AMThat seems like a pretty bad explanation, honestly. "Oh, it's a hassle, it's not going to sellout anyway. Meh. The fans will figure it out."

If that's what Platteville was saying, then maybe yes, for them.  The vast majority of d3 schools don't ever sell tickets (except for playoffs) and don't have any way of doing it.  Also, if everyone is going to get a ticket anyway, what's the big deal?  3500 people are not showing up for these games.
#37
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 07, 2024, 09:50:03 AMI find it really odd that Trine offers NO presale tickets for the game. The other 3 teams don't even get a block to sell to their own fans. So, basically, the traveling fans are just winging it, hoping they'll get a ticket. What is the policy? Are there sections for traveling fans blocked off and they are general admission? I doubt it will sell out, 3,500 seats? But still, for an NCAA game, I thought there would be standard ticketing policies. I think the biggest crowd there this season was about 2,700 for either a Calvin or Hope game. I read that the students are on spring break, so that should cut down on attendance.

As I said on the other thread, tickets have to be made available to the other schools.  Each visiting team is entitled to 1/6th of the tickets.  Perhaps none of them worried too much about going to the hassle of selling advanced tickets when its so unlikely to sell out.  3500 would be a decent showing for the Final Four, let alone Sectionals.
#38
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on March 07, 2024, 09:56:38 AMPretty odd that Trine offers NO presale tickets for this weekend. So Platteville fans will travel 6 hours without a ticket. In all likelihood, it won't come close to a sellout (the kids are on break), but still, visiting teams weren't even given a block to sell to their own fans.

I actually thought that was policy: host team get 50% and the other 3 teams split the other 50%? I suppose it would be different if they actually had to clear out the gym between games. Weird.


I guarantee Platteville was offered their 1/6th of the tickets.  It may be that Platteville bought up their own allotment to give out to VIPs and families, etc - or otherwise didn't make them available to the public.  That's often standard for visiting teams.  It could also be that Platteville didn't want the hassle of trying to sell their allotment during an already busy week.

There are NCAA regulations about the tickets being available to each school, so Trine can't just decide not to offer them.
#39
Multi-Regional Topics / Re: Conference changes
March 04, 2024, 10:28:09 PM

I bet the C2C would take them!

#40

It's not about actual cost, it's about average cost.  Travel budgets are done across all the D3 championships - they come up with averages for driving and for bussing in each round and that's how things are assigned.  We had the example this year of the Cortland football team choosing to drive twice when they were entitled to fly, which will likely improve the travel budget for everyone in every sport next year.

You can't really expect them to price out two different options for travel for sixteen traveling parties on a Saturday night, and then make hosting decisions.  That's pretty impractical.

I guarantee you, while the RMC basketball team would rather be playing at home, they're not devoting much, if any, time to worrying about it.

The realistic solution is lobbying the right people to increase the travel budget to better enable seeding to hold into the second weekend.  It's not a cheap proposition and there's really no one who doesn't want to see it happening. There's just not yet been a way to find that money.

It's also not like RMC hasn't benefitted from this in other years. Being within 500 miles of Western New England and much of New York has given you guys hosting opportunities other schools can only dream of.

Yeah, it's disappointing this year - it might have an outsized impact this year - but it's not worth beating a dead horse over.
#41
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 02, 2024, 12:20:23 AM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on February 28, 2024, 01:03:17 PMRound 1
Rowan
Worcester State
Eastern
Anderson
Wisconsin Lutheran
Geneva
New Paltz
UT-Dallas

Round 2
Christopher Newport
Oswego
Whitworth
Catholic
Hope
Illinois College
John Carroll
Tufts

Round 3
Platteville
Guilford
NWU
WashU
#42
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on March 02, 2024, 12:48:45 AM
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on February 28, 2024, 01:11:35 PMRound 1
Marcellus Ross, Rowan
DJ Campbell, Stockton
Logan Pearson, Platteville
Blake Campbell, Berry
Aaron Nkrumah, Worcester State
Jack Spellman, Stevens
Steph Baxter, Babson
Donovan Souter, UTD

Round 2
Nick Hurowitz, Farmingdale
Enzo Sechi, Catholic
Luke Frazier, JCU
Donyae Baylor-Carroll, PSUH
Ali Sabet, Loras
Tanner Wiegerink, Hope
Khalif Mears, Rowan
Jeremiah Sparks, Oswego

Round 3
Ja'Zere Noel, Rowan
Peter Lash, NWU
Tyler Dearman, Guilford
Ben Probst, Platteville
#43

This is entirely predictable.  It's how the second weekend has operated for decades.  If the seeds held, RMC was set up to host - in fact, they likely moved the John Carroll pod into this quadrant specifically because it worked out with RMC hosting.  Tufts messed up the geography, simple as that.

If St. Thomas, Trinity, and Worcester State came out of the HSC bracket, they'd be on the road to Texas.  Trine was the planned host over CWRU from the beginning.

And there no "evil NCAA."  The schools in d3 make these rules.  Yes, if the larger body had voted a higher percentage to d3 last year, as was requested, some of these cost savings issues might've gone away.  This is how we work with the limited budget that exists.

Not sure if I'll make it to any of the sites Friday, but if I do, it'll be at Trinity.  Hope to see some of you there!
#44

Trine was pretty much the plan from the beginning.  Geography was always going to dictate the second weekend host.  Bracket is too spread out.
#45

It's distance.  Tufts winning messed things up.  They've over 500 miles from Ashland, so going to Trinity reduces the flights needed from 2 to 1, saving money.  This is how it's always been.