Normally, school sponsor regional and national championships-this is done in virtually all sports, including the NCAA Division I basketball tournament.

Each school must make all the arrangements for hosting the event, supply the necessary manpower, and conform to all NCAA rules and regulatrions. In addition, each school must submit a financial bid to the NCAA and guarantee 75 per cent of that bid. In other words, if you get a regional and can't sell enough tickets to make it, your school takes the hit.

Sometimes, conferences will sponsor regionals and/or national championships (I believe that College Hockey America is hosting the NCAA Frozen Four in St. Louis). In addition, sometimes schools and/or conferences will act as co-hosts.



-----Original Message-----
>From: "Spreeman, Cathryn" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Mar 20, 2006 9:11 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: NCAA sponsorship of regionals
>
>It is my understanding that schools bid for the right to be the sponsor
>of a regional.  BU had perennially won the bidding for Worcester, hence
>was/is the host school.  UNH got into the act when the Verizon Wireless
>Arena was built in Manchester, NH.  The Arena management has to be
>willing and the capacity of the venue has to be big enough to qualify to
>host a regional.  
>
>If Union or some other school puts in a good competitive bid, it could
>win the right to be the host school.  I have no idea how much of a
>commitment of time or money the host school contributes, however.  
>
>Sincerely,
> 
>Cathy Spreeman
>UNH
> 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Lewin
>Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:01 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: NCAA sponsorship of regionals
>
>What is involved in a school's sponsorship of an NCAA regional?  Is it
>money, manpower or both?
>
>We had this discussion during an extremely boring ECAC semifinal
>(Harvard
>10 - Dartmouth 1) and no-one knew the answer.  The staging of the
>regionals
>every other year has always been sponsored by RPI, never by Union or a
>collaboration of the two.  The benefit of sponsorship is that RPI would
>automatically be placed in the Albany regional if they ever again
>qualify
>for the tournament.  It just seems to me that sponsorship would be a
>good
>investment for a school if the cost wasn't too high (unless of course
>the
>school administration places absolutely value in the school's sports
>program).
>
>Also, since another perennial site for regionals is in Worcester, why is
>BU
>always the sponsor?  BU, BC, UNH and Maine are often in the tournament.
>Wouldn't it make sense for one of the other schools to rotate the
>sponsorship?
>BC always seems to be coming to regionals in Albany since BU has
>Worcester
>all locked up.
>
>Perhaps the rules do not allow schools to sponsor the sharing of
>sponsorship
>since that might restrict the seedings of the tournament if multiple
>schools
>sponsored a specific site/