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Old Wed Mar 25, 2009, 07:43am
Ref Ump Welsch
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The women's tournament follows the same format as the volleyball tournament. The first two rounds are played at pre-determined home campuses, which are determined before teams are even chosen for the tournament. Some of these end up truly being neutral sites, while some, the pre-determined host school ends up playing at home (economics driving this). An example of a pre-determined site that the host school didn't even make the tournament: Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. There are probably a couple of others, but without looking at the brackets, I couldn't tell you what they are. The only reason I know about the TTU situation is because I've been keeping my eyes on South Dakota State (have some friends in Sioux Falls who were jumping for joy about them) and they were the only non-Texas school in the Lubbock group, and a mention was made that hopefully the Tech supporters who had tickets would get behind SDSU.
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