2018 NCAA TOURNAMENT COMES TO WICHITA!

[WuShock16]

The road to the 2018 Final Four will run through Wichita.

Take that, CAVE people!

[Play Angry]

Fantastic news.

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article3977385.html

[AdamCC]

“@bob:lutz: KU has informed the NCAA it will decline its 2018 bid if assigned to Wichita.”

Shots. Fired.

[shocks02]

About time!

https://twitter.com/marchmadness/status/534396093329461248

[1972Shocker]

Great. Thanks to those who supported the Women's NCAA Tournament in 2011. Not sure how much that helped but it sure as heck didn't hurt the cause.

[pogo]

Wow. I won't have to drive more than 10 hours to see our Shockers win the National Championship.

[Downtown Shocker Brown]

Wichita --> Omaha --> San Antonio

That would make for some easy travel for those in Wichita.

[Ricardo del Rio]

Fantastic news.

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article3977385.html

Two thumbs up, way up!

[SPEShockAlum]

Great for the city!

[ShockerPrez]

Isn't there a rule that a team cannot play in their home city? Thus ruling out the Shox playing in Wichita in the 1st. Errrrrrrr 2nd and 3rd rounds?

[vancedave56]

This will sell out in a heartbeat.

[WuShock16]

Isn't there a rule that a team cannot play in their home city? Thus ruling out the Shox playing in Wichita in the 1st. Errrrrrrr 2nd and 3rd rounds?

You cannot play in a facility where you play more than X-amount of games. If we play just one in IBA that year, we will be just fine. I think that was another reason to have MVC come in and be a host for the event. If we were the host, I am not sure we could have been placed there.

[Anthroshock]

You cannot play in a facility where you play more than X-amount of games. If we play just one in IBA that year, we will be just fine. I think that was another reason to have MVC come in and be a host for the event. If we were the host, I am not sure we could have been placed there.

I hope Koch renovations aren't happening that season.

[Cdizzle]

Isn't there a rule that a team cannot play in their home city? Thus ruling out the Shox playing in Wichita in the 1st. Errrrrrrr 2nd and 3rd rounds?

No. A team may not play in their "home arena." A team must play 4 games in an arena during the season for it to be considered a "home arena."

[ShockerPrez]

You cannot play in a facility where you play more than X-amount of games. If we play just one in IBA that year, we will be just fine. I think that was another reason to have MVC come in and be a host for the event. If we were the host, I am not sure we could have been placed there.

Thanks. That makes sense. I was just tryin to think of teams playing in their home city and its hard since most teams arent in large metro areas.