Despite complaints from iconic coaches, don’t expect NCAA to change double-regional format for women’s tournament
Tamba, Florida – Complaints cannot be ignored. From Birmingham, Alabama, to Spokan, Washington, at the end of last week, targeting some of the most prominent coaches in the total basketball of women for the new dual regional coordination in NCAA.
The first to cross out loudly, the rejection was through coordination – as there were eight teams playing a total of six games within four days in one square – Uconn Coach Geno Orima, 71 -year -old Fameer Hall, which has 11 national championships. Orima’s protests focused on the availability of the court time for practices and Shootarounds, which the comfort and recovery effects say to the players.
Urima said last Sunday: “In an ordinary world, it is run by ordinary people, there will be only four teams here.” “It means that we will not have to wake up at 6 am to practice eight o’clock here this morning for an hour. It means that we will not have to wake up at 5 am until we nominate at 7:30 am for half an hour.
He continued: “Men, who do not know shit from shit – according to many women’s basketball inhabitants – are ending on Sunday, then they have Monday, on Tuesday, on Friday, and play on Saturday. But there are many people in the women’s basketball community who think they are destroying anything. You are making billions of TV.
LsuKim Mulki and Fi Shaver of Texas were among the coaches who expressed their dissatisfaction with coordination as well.
However, these coaches and sports fans should not expect the regional double system to end any time soon. It seems that NCAA President Charlie Baker is a fan of coordination and said he would be difficult to deviate from her in the near future.
Baker told reporters on Friday, during his automatic availability in the working room in Tampa, which hosts correspondents on Friday during its automatic availability in the working room in Tampa, which hosts reporters on Friday during its automatic availability in the working room in Tampa, which hosts “Friday”: “It will be really difficult to change it at this stage without reuniting the whole matter.”
NCAA has turned the coordination of the second weekend of the tournament into only two regional sites instead of four after the 2022 championship, which was regional In Greenburo, North Carolina; Bridorport, Contecticut; Witchita, Kansas and Facebook, Washington. Regardless of Bridgeport Regional – which was played in the backyard of Uconn No. 2 – no regional final of that year was attracted to more than 7,800 fans.
In 2023, NCAA occupied two sites in Greenville, South Carolina and Seattle, Washington. The lowest attended by the regional final was LSU against Miami in Greenville, where 7988 fans drew. Two other regional finals attracted more than 11,000 fans. Last year, both regional final matches in Albani won more than 13,000 fans. The average regional finals of this year in Birmingham and Facebook reached 10,716 fans in four games.
Baker said: “The main reason behind the women’s basketball committee went to the two sites is to fill the stands and create a better experience for children and lead the attendees.” “They have accomplished both of these goals. The attendance numbers have been much higher over the past few years, and children really enjoy a crowded house.”
Currently, regional double coordination is set until 2028 with already booked sites. The 2026 games will be in Fort Worth, Texas and Sacramento, California, and will be the 2027 games in Philadelphia and Las Vegas, and Washington will host Washington, Wurland, Oregon, 2028, in Washington, DC.
“There are many coaches who do (such as double regional coordination),” Baker said. “Ask Dawn Staley about it. See what you say.”
Baker right. while Gamecocks coach Have you ever admired the shooting times and training times, and it seems that-like Baker-you think the dual regional is useful for fans of this sport.
“Do not get an exchange time in a reasonable hour,” said Stallie. I know that the attendees will be because of that. So, we need to pay revenues as much as possible. “
In fact, the NCAA women’s championships are better than ever. After iOWA VS. Lsu Elite Eight Clash and IOWA VS. South Carolina, the broken leak game last season, even when Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese moved to Wnba.
This year’s Elite Eight was the second most watched in the registry, with the average number of matches reached 2.9 million, which increased by 34 percent from the 2023 championship. LSU amounted to UCLA peak at 4.4 million viewers. This is good news for women’s basketball teams in the tournament, which They earn units for the first time this year.
Regarding the numbers of modern attendance and viewers ’parallels, the Kim Mulkey from LSU believes that NCAA has moved to the regional double system very quickly and can flourish in the same way in a traditional format of four sites.
“We have sold our soul very early. This game has improved. If you still have four regionalists, can you imagine the audience? I know our fans base. They cannot afford the costs of coming to Spokan. But they can be a little closer,” said Molki, the winner of four national championships. “We need to fix this. We do not wait until the contract ends. Let people keep their regional games.
Baker added that the women’s basketball committee talks about regional coordination on the basis of “regularly regularly” and said that the issue will be presented again when the committee meets after the four finals.
“If they believe that there is an option that would create the same experience as fans and sports students, I am sure that (the committee will work) in mind,” Baker said.
Texas Chever’s coach – who became a fifth coach in the history of sport this week to take two different programs to the four final – was complaining about coordination since he started.
“It seems to me that there can be better organization and better planning everywhere. This is not, as my children told,” Chevir said. “But (Mulkey and Auriemma) are right.
