Last Updated: October 28, 2023, 01:00 IST
CLEVELAND: The total No. 1 seed in the NCAA Women’s Tournament will get preferential remedy shifting ahead, a response to South Carolina coach Dawn Staley’s considerations and criticism.
The Division I Women’s Basketball Committee voted unanimously Friday to position the event’s top seed in a regional pod with recreation days on Friday and Sunday, guaranteeing the most rest potential for the No. 1 seed between the regional last and for the Women’s Final Four.
Staley approached broadcast companion ESPN and NCAA officers concerning the difficulty on the Southeastern Conference’s spring conferences in Destin, Florida, in May.
“It’s not that I’m a sore loser,” Staley stated. “I think it’s great that almost 10 million viewers watched our sport. But you also have to break things down like you do with film. I broke our tournament down, where we were placed and things that we did over the course of a season. … We were the No. 1 overall seed. If there were going to be some advantages and benefits, it should have come to us.”
Eventual nationwide champion LSU and runner-up Iowa each had an additional day of rest in comparison with South Carolina, which suffered its first and solely lack of the 2022-23 season to Iowa in Dallas. LSU beat Virginia Tech, which additionally had one much less day to organize.
“A key learning from our first season with the new format was we should reward the No. 1 overall seeded team by allowing that team the most possible rest time between the regional final and the Women’s Final Four,” stated Lisa Peterson, chair of the committee and senior affiliate commissioner for sports activities administration with the Pac-12 Conference. “We made that decision unanimously.”
The 2024 Women’s Final Four can be performed April 5 and seven in the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland.
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AP girls’s faculty basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll
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