Looking for some help from the experts here. I'm aware that it's rare to host both women and men's 1st/2nd round NCAA games on the same campus and that the NCAA alternates years to determine which (women or men) have hosting priority for 1/2 round and for sectionals (sweet 16 / elite 8). Using today's NPI, the following schools would have this conflict:
Williams
Tufts
Lake Forest
Emory
Wash U
Wesleyan
Women have 1st/2nd round priority this year I believe. Men have sectional priority.
What is likely to happen? would the NCAA send their top 3 seeds (Williams, Tufts, Lake Forest today) to play away if this conflict exists? or would the NCAA work with schools to try and host both women and men on the same campus? I'm sure others have seen this conflict in past years and know more about it than I do. Thanks.
One of the reasons why the D3 tournament committees encourage any school that may make the field for an NCAA team tournament to submit paperwork to host is to accommodate conflicts like this. Starting last year, if Williams, Tufts, and Lake Forest actually finish #1, #2, and #3 in NPI for selection purposes, those respective teams would be seeded on a #1 seed line, and they would be protected in that they would not have to face each other until the national semifinals. ("Final Four.") A #2 seed line would go to teams seeded #5 through #8 in NPI at the time of selection, and they would also get some protection as to not having to play any team on the #1 to #4 ranking in NPI until the national quarterfinals ("Elite Eight".)
In the scenario you describe, the Williams, Tufts, and Lake Forest men would be sent away for the first/second rounds, but they each would be placed in brackets that strive to maintain them to play within 500 miles of their respective campuses (for geographic proximity), but also to bracket them where they would be the top seeds in each of those pods. Each of these 3 teams would wear the home jerseys for both the first and second rounds to emphasize that they are the higher seeds, even though the team in the dark uniforms may actually be hosting. The #2 seed in each of those pods drawn by geographic proximity would be the host schools of those pods, provided they submitted paperwork to host-- if the #2 seed by NPI in that pod did not submit hosting paperwork, and the #3 seed by NPI in the pod did submit the paperwork, then the #3 seed in that pod would host. Geographic proximity does take preference over seeding for all teams not seeded in a #1 or #2 national seed line.
There are exceptions to this rule. U.Chicago does have their soccer teams play on separate fields. The U.Chicago men's soccer team plays their regular season games on the Stagg Turf Field (I.e. the same field where their gridiron football team plays), while the U.Chicago women's team plays their soccer games on the Stagg Grass Field next door. In that case, U.Chicago has been known to host both men and women's soccer teams on the same tournament weekend, with one pod playing in the afternoon and the other pod in the evening, because separate fields are used. Even then, there is a concern that weather could disrupt the scheduling of the tournaments if it is bad enough. Another accomodation that can be used that weekend if a school had to host men's and women's NCAA soccer first/second round action on the same weekend is to have the men's first/second round action be on Friday/Saturday afternoon , and the women's first second round action be on Saturday/Sunday evening or vice versa, with the proviso that one gender gets afternoons and the other gender gets evenings.
Tufts used to have the women's soccer team play on a separate field from the men's soccer team, so many years ago, it would be possible to have Tufts host both men and women on the same weekend for soccer using different fields, but not anymore.
There was one year where the Brandeis and Williams women's soccer teams both made the NCAA DIII soccer tournament along with the Williams men. Men had priority to host first/second rounds that seson, so since Brandeis submitted paperwork to host tournament rounds, Brandeis got to host a women's first/second round pod and the tournament committee sent the Williams women to Brandeis for the women's first/second round. The Wiiliams men had priority to host that weekend, so the Williams women got sent out. Williams easily eliminated the Brandeis women in the second round.
Quote from: deiscanton on Yesterday at 03:02:29 AMTufts used to have the women's soccer team play on a separate field from the men's soccer team, so many years ago, it would be possible to have Tufts host both men and women on the same weekend for soccer using different fields, but not anymore.
Tufts did have both their lacrosse teams host during the same weekend in May, so it's possible they could do it again with the soccer teams, though I think they probably would only do it for the 2nd weekend(if both teams are on the 1 line).