NCAA Division I Women 's Hoops Commission Selects Women 's Final Quartet Sites for the Eld 2012-16

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division I Women 's Hoops Commission holds selected five future Women 's Last Four sites for the eld 2012-2016. The Women 's Concluding Four sites are:

2012 - Denver. Mount West Conference, host.
2013 - New Orleans. University of New Orleans, host.
2014 - Nashville. OH Vale Conference, host.
2015 - Tampa Embayment. University of South Florida, host.
2016 - Indianapolis. Pantryman University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ( IUPUI ) and Skyline Conference, hosts.

`` The women 's hoops commission placed a enormous sum of clip and endeavour in the Women 's Terminal Four site choice procedure, '' told Jacki Silar, chair of the NCAA Division I Women 's Hoops Commission and associate manager of sports at Duke University. `` It was a really hard and important conclusion and it was the commission 's charge to ascertain which of the metropolises would best function as future host sites for the pinnacle of women 's hoops - the Women 's Final 4. ''

After submitting an intent-to-bid descriptor last November, representatives of 12 metropolises attended a pre-bid seminar in January, and they encountered with NCAA staff for single planning and advancement updates in April and again in June. After taking eight finalist metropolises in August, women 's hoops commission members doed site visits to each finalist metropolis in Sept and Oct 2008. Following the site sees to each prospective metropolis, representatives of the command commission doed concluding presentations to the commission on Nov 11-12 in Indianapolis.

`` The commission appreciated the work and try of each of the metropolises that participated in that bidding option procedure, '' Silar stated. `` Commission members assessed each prospective host metropolis based on many measures, weighing each ingredient 's importance and what is critical to successfully host a Women 's Final Quatern. ''

When assessing prospective host metropolises, the commission reexamined each metropolis 's competition locus, convention Centre, hotel community, transit programmes, bequest plans and fiscal committedness, likewise as the community 's and prospective host institution/conference 's overall committedness to the event.

`` This is an exciting clip for the game of collegiate women 's hoops and this was apparent by the figure and quality of metropolises that participated in the command procedure as prospective 2012-16 Women 's Last Four hosts, '' told NCAA President Myles Marque. `` Felicitations to the five metropolises took as these metropolises correspond the futurity for this great event. In 2016, the NCAA will observe the Thirty-fifth anniversary season of the NCAA Division I Women 's Hoops Title. With metropolises such as Denver, New Orleans, Nashville, Tampa Embayment and Indianapolis functioning as future hosts, we believe the Women 's Final Tetrad will proceed its ontogenesis as a pavilion event and keep to be the ultimate experience for our student-athletes. ''

The metropolises chosen correspond a blend of metropolises with past Women 's Concluding Four hosting experience in Indianapolis ( 2005 ), New Orleans ( 1991, 2004 ) and Tampa Embayment ( 2008 ), while Denver and Nashville will be hosting the event first.

`` We would care to evince our grasp to the prospective host metropolises and bidding commissions that participated in the dictation procedure for the 2012-16 Women 's Final Quatern, '' stated NCAA Executive V.p. Tom Jernstedt. `` The clip, endeavor and enthusiasm in each of their commands were notable and because of this sort of committedness and fight, the Women 's Final Quaternion will proceed to be the outstanding jubilation ' of women 's hoops that it holds gone. This was a hard determination by the Division I Women 's Hoops Commission, and I acclaim their tries in finding the five metropolises that will function as the future host metropolises for the pinnacle event in women 's hoops. ''

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Media Contact: Wrick Nixon, Associate Manager of Division I Women 's Hoops Title, 317-917-6539