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Topic: What's in it for us?

Topic: What's in it for us?

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Old Zone
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What's in it for us?

Posted: 8/21/2016 4:22:26 PM

From Cleveland.com:

The Columbus Sports Commission announced on Monday that it has partnered with Ohio State, Ohio University, Ohio Dominican University, Capital University and Thomas More College (Ky.) to bid on 47 NCAA Championships through the 2021-2022 academic year.

One of those bids would be to host an NCAA men's basketball regional sometime between 2020-2022. The regional games would be played at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus, and hosted by Ohio University. The location and host would allow the Buckeyes to play regional games in Columbus if they earned a high enough seed.

brucecuth
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RE: What's in it for us?

Posted: 8/21/2016 5:23:16 PM

what i'm hoping is this: Should Columbus be awarded a tournament site, and we are the host school, then we should be the school that plays the early season "demonstration/walk through" game at the Schottenstein Center.

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RE: What's in it for us?

Posted: 8/21/2016 6:16:02 PM

brucecuth wrote:

It wouldn't be at the Schott, but more like Nationwide.

Speaker of Truth
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RE: What's in it for us?

Posted: 8/21/2016 9:13:12 PM

There would be some money involved for OU here. Also would get some good exposure since our logo would be on the baseline.

The staff that runs this would mostly be volunteers and NCAA staff with OU having some responsibility and insight.

For things like this, schools typically work pretty strongly together and the "rivalries" that fans talk about are of little significance.

It would also be a good chip to have with the sports commission. IOU style.

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RE: What's in it for us?

Posted: 8/22/2016 9:59:21 PM

Interesting that in that list, OSU is the only school that's not listed as either a university or a college. Par for the course at Olentangy Tech. ;-)

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mcbin
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RE: What's in it for us?

Posted: 9/2/2016 6:59:11 PM

Old Zone wrote:

One of those bids would be to host an NCAA men's basketball regional sometime between 2020-2022. The regional games would be played at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus, and hosted by Ohio University. The location and host would allow the Buckeyes to play regional games in Columbus if they earned a high enough seed.

I'm thinking that may also mean we'd have to play a game (or few) in the location that the games are held a year or so ahead in order to be able to 'host'... So Bobcats may be in NW Arena for some non conference game(s) in the coming years. Would be kind of nice.

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