2012 Division III NCAA Tournament

[FechtinKiltie]

Touche....I better choose carefully. 
Anyone know the deal with Lake Erie hosting the remaining regional games?  Wondering how they choose another venue (size, location, high seed, $), 'cause 750 seats is pretty tight...

[Greek Tragedy]

Touche....I better choose carefully. 

And choose it carefully in the right board...

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[kiltedbryan]

Welcome to the boards, FetchinKiltie.  You'll be happy to know (as am I), that Lake Erie's 750 seat gymnasium will be too small to host a sectional.  The NCAA requires men's hosts to have at least a 1000 seat gym to host games on the second weekend.  By the way, the first rounds of the D-III tourney are called regionals; the sweet sixteen/elite eight matchups happen at four sectional locations.  So it's regionals, sections, then the final four.

[David Collinge]

The first thing that Lake Erie must do to host a sectional is win their second-round game against John Carroll or Westminster (PA).  Should they accomplish that, they wouldn't be allowed to host a sectional at the Athletic and Wellness Center, assuming that the published capacity of 750 is correct, but they would be permitted to host a sectional at another, more suitable, facility if they so chose, although that may be cost-prohibitive for a small school like Lake Erie College.  That doesn't mean that they'd be selected, though, as seeding is a relatively low priority in sectional hosting decisions:

Site Selection
The Championships Committee has prioritized the following site-selection criteria for all championships:
1. Quality and availability of the facility and other necessary accommodations;
2. Geographical location (which may include such factors as rotation of sites, weather, accessibility and transportation costs);
3. Seeding; and
4. Attendance history and revenue potential, which shall be considered necessary to assure fiscal responsibility.
In addition, the men’s basketball committee requires each host to videotape all contests at its site, with the intent to make available to each team a copy of the contest in which it participated. The committee also prefers sites that will not host conflicting events during the championship practice and competition. Sites will also be evaluated as to the availability of appropriate practice times for all competing teams. To host first-round, second-round or sectional contests, a regulation court as defined in 2007 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Rules and Interpretations must be used. To host sectional competition, arena seating for at least 1,000 spectators is required.

Furthermore, potential host teams need to have submitted facility evaluation forms by a deadline that passed 10 days ago, so LEC probably already knows whether they're eligible to host or not.

[Greek Tragedy]

Don't hosts need to host on their campus?

[David Collinge]

I don't see anything in the Handbook that either requires an on-campus arena or forbids an off-campus venue.  I think the counter-example is Hope College, whose on-campus arena (prior to the new DeVos Center) didn't have a regulation-length floor; they were permitted to host NCAA events in the Holland Civic Center.  If that's not correct, I'm sure one or more of the 1,735 Hope posters will correct me...

[diehardfan]

Actually, I think the actual Holland Civic Center was too short!

[Pat Coleman]

Yeah that was vice versa.

[David Collinge]

Make that 1,737 Hope posters...

Anyway, even if my example is wrong, I think the concept it fails to illuminate is correct; if someone knows better, please chime in.

[Knightstalker]

Don't hosts need to host on their campus?

Before NJCU moved to the JMAC they used the Yanatelli Center at St. Peters for NCAA tournament games.  The old Fries gym only seated about 200-300 people and the court was too short.

[NW Hope Fan]

Don't hosts need to host on their campus?

Before NJCU moved to the JMAC they used the Yanatelli Center at St. Peters for NCAA tournament games.  The old Fries gym only seated about 200-300 people and the court was too short.

Much better example... Thank you! 

David,

The Holland Civic Center (Off campus home to the Hope College Men's basketball team) was deemed too short (thank you Albion Coach Turner!) and the men played on campus in the Dow center in 1995.

Interestingly enough, in 1990, the Hope women had the opportunity to host the final 4 in Holland and instead of playing the games on their home court... the Dow Center (where they played their regional and quarterfinal games), they played the games where??? The Holland Civic Center...with its too short court!

[Gray Fox]

Why would Oxy decline a bid ?

They wouldn't. Apparently some of my crazy SCIAC poster friends would.

I think that is ONE poster.

[fcnews]

Does any road team travel a smaller distance than Fontbonne University?Mapquest shows the distance from campus to campus as being 30 yards, the width of Wydown Blvd.

[ILive4This]

WOW whether you use QOWI or RPI the Trinity/Brandeis matchup just seems upsurd. First off how are neither of these teams hosting the first two rounds, and how are they playing each other in the first round. Imagine if UCLA and Wisconsin played each other in the first round of March Madness. This is very unfortunate because one elite 8 (at least) contender is going to be knocked out on friday.

[bucs77]

I keep hearing certain seeds that each team has in the bracket.  Where is the bracket that shows the seeding?