Guess who isn't? Florida playing in Raleigh. Auburn playing in Lexington. Houston playing in Wichita. Guess where Dook is?
Three number ones getting the shaft.
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The sites are determined years in advance. Auburn got the best site for them. Duke was next and got the best available site for them. Just how it works.
Duke could be the 11 seed and still get Raleigh. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Except Raleigh and Greensboro are sites every year.
Louisville has been a site a few times recently and all we had to do is win to get there ourselves. Not telling you what to be angry about. Feel free.
This is the first NCAA tournament game Duke has played in the state of North Carolina since 2015.
Stupid people always invent reasons to get upset
I’m certainly not in favor of them geting sites every year. I can see why they get them though. Supply and demand. CBB is a somewhat niche sport and they want money. North Carolina is a basketball state and there are multiple cities that are large enough to attract games. Kentucky has two cities. Some of the larger venues in other metropolitan areas may be attractive in a vacuum but you turn on the tv and see they are 65% empty. Where the money is, they will go. I get the frustration of NC always having games. To me though, the time to be mad about that is when the venues are announced…not when the committee assigns the teams. It’s not as though that process is a mystery
This. I don't like when people make things up.
If you are gonna say something research it first.
Kentucky has played in the state of Kentucky 18 times in the history of the program with 14 of the 18 coming 40+ years ago. Duke on the other hand has played 40 NCAA tournament games in Raleigh alone. Then throw in games in Charlotte, Greensboro plus the games they played at home when the NCAA allowed it and you understand why those "stupid people" have a reason to discuss it.
How is that for research?
Funny how you didn't mention why Duke hasn't played there since 2015.
Now do the years previous to 2015.
One of our 8 National Championships (1958) was won without leaving the State of Kentucky. Glass houses.
That was common practice then so let's not act like UK was done a favor. There wasn't the commercialization of the Final Four with games played in domed arenas like it is now.
UCLA, when they're good...usually gets to play in California until the final 4
Could you possibly go back any further? Were there no peach basket statistics available?
You can't get worse than San Fran for us though in the Sweet 16/Elite 8. I was scared they would make Gonzaga our #8 but they didn't luckily.
From wiki.
On September 12, 2016, the NCAA stripped the state of North Carolina of hosting rights for seven upcoming college sports tournaments and championships held by the association, including early round games of the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament scheduled for the Greensboro Coliseum. The NCAA argued that House Bill 2 made it "challenging to guarantee that host communities can help deliver [an inclusive atmosphere]".[49][50] Bon Secours Wellness Arena was able to secure the bid to be the replacement site.[51] In an ironic twist, Durham-based Duke would suffer a defeat to South Carolina in a second-round game at Greenville that year.
Fake drama for the drama queens. None of those 3 number ones are getting the shaft.
I don’t like the every second complaining about Duke. Makes us look like they are above us in the pecking order, kinda hurts my pride. I still hold onto the idea that we are the top brand in CBB. I’m probably just living in the past
Duke fans travel 20 miles for their first 2 games, Florida 7.5 hours, Auburn fans 8 hours and Houston fans 9 hours for their first 2 games. Care to elaborate on why it doesn't seem like Duke and it's fans aren't getting special treatment when they can sleep in their own freaking beds at night?
If Duke didn’t earn the second #1 seed though, you know a team closer would have earned that location though. That’s just how the tournament works. People would have been just as mad those years the tournament had Louisville as a regional site had we been good enough to get there.
Thx for giving facts and not opinions
Yes. So the NCAA created a rule they knew would hurt Duke, but did it anyway because they do not give preferential treatment to Duke selections.
In addition stupid people dont know what year it is and things change.
Charlotte hosted 2024. Duke was placed in bracket in Brooklyn
Greensboro hosted in 2023. Duke was placed in Orlando
Charlotte hosted in 2018. Duke was placed in Pittsburgh bracket.
Are you tired of being wrong yet of seeing the overwhelming evidence about Duke not getting special placement in the NCAA tournament?
I get it. You are a dook fan. Tell me how they are not getting preferential treatment this year. Can you possibly do it without your dook bias coming through?
80% of the time Duke never travels farther than 100 miles more or less in the first round.
What I love about these threads, are trolls outing themselves in a desperate attempt to defend the indefensible with sophistry. It's like obnoxiously smug moths to a flame.
If they are going to get to play close to home, I'd prefer it was the first 2 rounds where they were going to breeze thru anyway.
Speaking for myself, I like to be consistent as I can be. Cats from cradle to grave. I feel like if I complain about something I’ll have to complain about it for my team as well. Not everything is about some super secret operation, as though the ones who disagree with OP are closet Duke fans. Cmon bro, you’re talking about being obnoxious and saying everyone who disagrees is a troll. Allow others within the fanbase to hold to a different view on things
Why are you ignoring my post where I gave you facts that Duke has played 20 miles from their campus twice as much as UK has played in KY not to mention every other venue in North Carolina?
I don't know about the 80%, but they are clearly given an advantage, year after year.
No, bro. I was speaking up for everyone you said was a troll. I’m just saying BBN can have people with different perspectives with things, that’s all. Not one hivemind that all agrees on every minor detail. God bless
Since the pod system began in 2002 how many times had the tournament been in Louisville and raleigh?
I never really understood how people could fall knee deep into conspiracy theories until I started to read this message board.
