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SO how come the Furman/Richmond game was at Richmond??

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    SO how come the Furman/Richmond game was at Richmond??

    Was just curious about this, since the higher seed recieves the home game. Furman was #3 seed, Richmond was #12 I believe. So why did Richmond host the game?
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    Originally posted by UNIMAN4
    Was just curious about this, since the higher seed recieves the home game. Furman was #3 seed, Richmond was #12 I believe. So why did Richmond host the game?
    Furman was not acually a 3 seed in the "playoffs", that belonged to Hampton I think, Furman might have been ranked third but they carried no ranking in the post season, the committee only ranks 4 teams and those 4 were (and I mean were) N.H., Hampton, App State and Texas State. After that it is just a bidding war, apparently Richmond had a higher second round bid than Furman. Oh well, it worked out nicely for them anyway.
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      ah i see.

      So I guess its too bad Texas State went into the post-season ranked #4, or it would have been a bidding war between them and us (dome) and the dome would have won since it seats more folks.

      By the way, to anyone making the trip down to San Marcos, GREAT TOWN. Chance to get away from Iowa Winter as well. I use to live about 1/2 hour away from San Marcos so am pretty familiar with it. In the "hill country" of texas. Between San Antonio and Austin. I know someone posted on this forum earlier that it would be about a 14 hour drive. Maybe if you are going 100 MPH and make no stops. Figure ATLEAST 17-18 hours to make the trip down.

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        Originally posted by UNIMAN4
        ah i see.

        So I guess its too bad Texas State went into the post-season ranked #4, or it would have been a bidding war between them and us (dome) and the dome would have won since it seats more folks.

        By the way, to anyone making the trip down to San Marcos, GREAT TOWN. Chance to get away from Iowa Winter as well. I use to live about 1/2 hour away from San Marcos so am pretty familiar with it. In the "hill country" of texas. Between San Antonio and Austin. I know someone posted on this forum earlier that it would be about a 14 hour drive. Maybe if you are going 100 MPH and make no stops. Figure ATLEAST 17-18 hours to make the trip down.
        14hours from Des Moines - averaging 75/hour with a few stops in there - so those of you in CF would figure about 16 hours....
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        • #5
          Originally posted by UNIMAN4
          Was just curious about this, since the higher seed recieves the home game. Furman was #3 seed, Richmond was #12 I believe. So why did Richmond host the game?
          The chairman of the selection committee said that the bids were close, and the deciding factor was "student athlete well being". In other words, Richmond traveled for their first game so they got a home game for the second round.

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          • #6
            So...UNI has had to travel last week and TSU has had two home games...so for the well-being of our student-athletes, this game should have been in CF? Just trying to stir the pot!
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            • #7
              Originally posted by panther2317
              So...UNI has had to travel last week and TSU has had two home games...so for the well-being of our student-athletes, this game should have been in CF? Just trying to stir the pot!
              Just think how close we might have been to that #4 seed on the selection day.
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              • #8
                Guess it's time to take down our 6th top 11 team in the rankings in a 7 week span. NO PROBLEM.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by UNIAlum95
                  Just think how close we might have been to that #4 seed on the selection day.

                  We get the chance to go out on Friday and prove that the seed should've been, and rightfully was, ours.

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