(05-04-2019 12:00 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(05-04-2019 07:59 AM)Renandpat Wrote:  

(05-03-2019 10:33 AM)johnintx Wrote:  

(05-03-2019 10:20 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(04-24-2019 06:33 PM)Rube Dali Wrote:  UNLV apparently made an attempt to bid for a basketball regional and a Frozen Four in the last cycle, but PASPA was still in place at the time. With PAPSA struck down, Nevada facilities can bid and I'm pretty sure the NCAA will select Law Vegas once or twice. Los Angeles is also expected to bid for Final Four after 2026. Thus my either/or scenario for 2026.

The NCAA has rescinded its ban on holding NCAA championship events in legal sports betting states. They pretty much had to, because there are now several states with legal sports betting and there are many future NCAA events, including March Madness rounds, already scheduled for some of those states.

Sports betting might still give the heebie-jeebies to the NCAA numbskulls, so Thomas & Mack Center seems like the more likely site if Vegas gets March Madness games, even though they'd make more money playing at T-Mobile Arena.

Thanks for the update. Yes, that makes sense.

And yes, Thomas & Mack makes sense as a host.

This also opens up the new Raiders stadium as a potential Final Four host, if the NCAA wants to go there.

No, you play at T-Mobile Arena. Even with the recent updates, Thomas and Mack is a far inferior facility.

The new arena is definitely a better facility, but the NCAA ninnies who want to pretend gambling isn't so close to their sport may not want to be at an arena that is surrounded by casino resorts.

They've lost that battle, especially close to home within Indiana and the state legislature.
Heck, the state in which they reside is about to have the governor sign a gambling bill which will allow mobile gaming statewide, so even in the venues where they're committed to host championships every five years*.

*-NCAA has already broken that promise by giving Lucas Oil stadium the 2021 Final Four, not the 2020 per their extended lease for the Hall of Champions.
EDIT: Indiana's governor signed the gambling bill into law on Wednesday, so now ten states have some sort of sports betting.