San Antonio Gets High Marks, Plans To Bid For More Final Fours
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San Antonio Execs Plan To
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San Antonio Local Organizing Committee Exec Dir Jenny Carnes said the city is "planning to submit bids" for all NCAA women's basketball Final Four from 2012-16, as well as all but the 2015 men's Final Four during that period, according to William Pack of the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS. An Alamodome scheduling conflict is preventing the city from bidding for the 2015 men's event. While San Antonio already is hosting the 2010 women's Final Four, the city must "outbid nine other cities" for future championships. NCAA Senior VP/Basketball & Business Strategies Greg Shaheen "could not guarantee San Antonio another [men's] Final Four but said the tournament would return" in the future. Shaheen: "For the foreseeable future, San Antonio will be on the list of places we'll be." George Mason Univ. AD and NCAA Selection Committee Chair Tom O'Connor gave the city an "A+ with a gold star" as this year's men's Final Four host. Carnes noted that the NCAA's interactive fan zone Hoop City "set an attendance record with more than 63,000 visitors, and more than 167,000 people attended the Big Dance free street party" (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 4/9). A SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS editorial states civic leaders "got what they wanted ... a spectacle that attracted thousands of visitors to the city, generating what should turn out to be millions of dollars for the local economy." The ultimate benefit is "not the visitors, but the positive image the city portrayed to visitors, a boon worth more than any advertising campaign" (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 4/9).
TAMPA, TOO: NCAA Associate Dir of D-I Women's Basketball Rick Nixon said that Tampa, which hosted the NCAA women's Final Four and has bid to host the tournament again between 2012-16, "met all expectations as a host city." Westin Tampa Harbour Island Sales Dir Cricket Wagner "lauded tournament organizers for making scores of stickers, vests, banners, column wrappers and signs emblazoned with the Final Four logo available to hotels to effectively market the games" (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 4/9).
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