wth is wrong with the women's tournament?

[ElFenix]

why are all these low seeds playing on their home court?!? minnesota is a 7 seed. ND is a 5 seed. 12th seeded new mexico played on it's home court. WTF.

 

[Vette73]

Women play sports?????

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Women play sports?????

Not only that, but they apparently televise it. :Q

 

[emmpee]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
why are all these low seeds playing on their home court?!? minnesota is a 7 seed. ND is a 5 seed. 12th seeded new mexico played on it's home court. WTF.

NCAA has some strange guidelines for deciding who hosts tournament games. I'm really familiar with the hockey tournament hosting guidelines, but I'm 99% sure the guidelines are across all sports.

Why aren't higher seeds hosting? Chances are that one of the following applied:

a) Their facility was being used for something else this weekend (scheduling conflict)
b) Their facility is 'insufficient' by NCAA standards (doesn't hold enough people, not enough hotel accomodations in surrounding area, etc)
c) The school didn't put in a bid for hosting (they simply chose not to host)

 

[Hector13]

wisconsin basically hosted their mens game vs Pitt today.. though it didn't help as even the best big 10 teams still suck!!