Next Year's DII and DIII championship games will be at Div I Final Four

[wscsuperfan]

https://twitter.com/NABC1927/status/1121076098241048576

The NCAA Division II and Division III Men's Basketball Championships will be held alongside the Division I Men's Final Four in Atlanta next year!

[Augieholic]

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Only one current Central Region team has won a National Title south of the Mason Dixon line.

[simple as a $3 bill]

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The NCAA Division II and Division III Men's Basketball Championships will be held alongside the Division I Men's Final Four in Atlanta next year!

The question is, which game will Augie be in, the DI game or the DII game?

[RollStangs]

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So will Elite 8 still be in Evansville or will that be moved to Atlanta as well?

[Moorhead123]

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https://twitter.com/NABC1927/status/1121076098241048576

The NCAA Division II and Division III Men's Basketball Championships will be held alongside the Division I Men's Final Four in Atlanta next year!

That is a great idea

[NWHoops]

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So will Elite 8 still be in Evansville or will that be moved to Atlanta as well?

Pure guess that Elite 8 and Final Four in Evansville with championship game approx. a week later in Atlanta.

[NSU4LIFE]

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Well, while the exposure is cool it's kind of a bummer. Likely a giant arena with faint chants echoing. I cant speak for everyone but pretty much rules out going to a national title game if the Wolves were to ever reach that point.

[Stanger86]

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Pure guess that Elite 8 and Final Four in Evansville with championship game approx. a week later in Atlanta.

Looks that way

Saturday: Division I Final Four (Falcons stadium)
Sunday: Division II and Division III championship games (Hawks arena)
Monday: Division I championship (Falcons stadium)

[Moorhead123]

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Well, while the exposure is cool it's kind of a bummer. Likely a giant arena with faint chants echoing. I cant speak for everyone but pretty much rules out going to a national title game if the Wolves were to ever reach that point.

Speaking as someone who experienced the excitement of the final four weekend recently in Minneapolis...I think the overall excitement of that weekend (and all such related festivities) may actually make the overall experience better for all (fans, players and coaches). Maybe I will be proven wrong as the actual championship game will lose too much of the excitement being in the large nba stadium and outweigh the rest. May get more fans to travel to D2/D3 championship game if they can make bigger weekend travel event out of it??

While in Minneapolis for final four weekend I did actually think that it would be great if the d2 players/fans could also experience the championship basketball atmosphere. Many of the d2/d3 coaches were in town anyway for coaching conferences etc. It truly is the epicenter of basketball in the world (they also had top international nba high school academy teams playing games at convention center, celebrity games at St. Thomas, etc.) for those few days. I even thought the MN high school association should have tried to have their state tournament games at same time down and around the excitement.

If successful, I could see d2 and d3 expand in future to making it also a final 4 weekend for each division at same time...

[MrAugustana]

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Didn't this happen the year Drury and Metro State played? (2012? 2013?) Would be interested to hear what a fan of either team thought of that experience.

[GrifFan]

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Didn't this happen the year Drury and Metro State played? (2012? 2013?) Would be interested to hear what a fan of either team thought of that experience.

2013. According to the NCAA release, D2 drew its largest crowd since '71, and D3 had an all-time attendance record.

[laker]

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I even thought the MN high school association should have tried to have their state tournament games at same time down and around the excitement.

Shortage of hotel space would be a major reason.

[GrifFan]

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If they do it like 2013, you would have basically a week to plan a trip to Atlanta after the semifinals. Considering hotel and travel will probably already be at a premium because of the Final Four, that seems less than ideal.

[Stanger86]

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If they do it like 2013, you would have basically a week to plan a trip to Atlanta after the semifinals. Considering hotel and travel will probably already be at a premium because of the Final Four, that seems less than ideal.

I would hope that Division II/III would have hotel blocks reserved in advance ready for whatever schools make the games to just slide in.

[NSU4LIFE]

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Speaking as someone who experienced the excitement of the final four weekend recently in Minneapolis...I think the overall excitement of that weekend (and all such related festivities) may actually make the overall experience better for all (fans, players and coaches). Maybe I will be proven wrong as the actual championship game will lose too much of the excitement being in the large nba stadium and outweigh the rest. May get more fans to travel to D2/D3 championship game if they can make bigger weekend travel event out of it??

While in Minneapolis for final four weekend I did actually think that it would be great if the d2 players/fans could also experience the championship basketball atmosphere. Many of the d2/d3 coaches were in town anyway for coaching conferences etc. It truly is the epicenter of basketball in the world (they also had top international nba high school academy teams playing games at convention center, celebrity games at St. Thomas, etc.) for those few days. I even thought the MN high school association should have tried to have their state tournament games at same time down and around the excitement.

If successful, I could see d2 and d3 expand in future to making it also a final 4 weekend for each division at same time...

Oh, I'm not trying to make it sound like it will be bad. Someone shared info that it may turn out to be better attendance and all. My thought is absolutely skewed by the way we packed the Pentagon. If it was in Evansville, naturally that many probably wouldnt have made it. Now you move it to say Atlanta and very few can make that sort of haul let alone I dont they'd block off rooms for the two schools that make it. Most people would be there for the D1 and buy tickets well in advance regardless of who is playing, not to mention the price hike. For the men and women playing, I'm sure it will be awesome though.