(06-26-2018 07:02 AM)dan10 Wrote:  For the record, I was only throwing that as an option since Raleigh seems to be a location mentioned. I have no care one way or the other. But if Raleigh is an option I do not know how you avoid anothers' campus. PNC is too big. Verizon Center in DC is too big. There are options around DC but they are even less desirable due to being former conference mates no longer with us. CAA and NC State have no ties. ACC will always be above us. No reason to act differently. If the venue is appropriate, it should be a realistic option. Being on a college campus gives many options for stuff to do outside of the basketball tournament.

Personally I would have the first two rounds at host sites of the higher seed and have the semis and finals on the weekend with it at a neutral location that rotates every two years (3 years is ok too) between Baltimore, Richmond, N Charleston. I think any further north is a very bad idea (I know others have thrown out the Palestra in Philly) and having it in the deeper south side for very long is not a good idea either, albeit better than going north as the conference currently sits.

I actually like the idea of the early round games being distributed onto campus sites as well.