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Old Mon Mar 14, 2011, 11:46am
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They haven't in the past. I believe the reasoning was that not every venue was set up for it. Doesn't make sense to me. As much money that is put into the tournament I don't think it would take that much for the NCAA to equip every venue with a PTS.
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As I understand the PTS system, a lot of those venues don't want it because - once installed - they pretty much have to use it for everything.
The reason they don't use it (or haven't in the past) is because the NCAA didn't pay for it. Each conference pays a fee to basically rent the equipment every year (or however long the contract is). All the venues can use the system, but ya gotta pay to use it.
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