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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5242101, member: 27"] Turning Stone starts new phase of massive $370 million expansion. Includes a 258 room hotel. I assume it will be close enough to Syracuse to count when SU bids to host future NCAA mens women's hoops tournaments. It is 34.7 miles from Turning Stone to Syracuse (about 38 minutes driving). This is the same distance as Spokane is from Coeur d’Alene and two Coeur d’Alene hotels were used when Spokane hosted NCAA hoops games in March of 2024. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.syracuse.com/news/2024/11/turning-stone-casino-starts-new-phase-of-massive-370-million-expansion.html[/URL] I think the tower at Turning Stone has 95 rooms and could be used to host another team. We have the Marriott downtown, which is plenty big enough (315 rooms) and nice enough to host one team. Perhaps two. Teams have been doubled up in Albany and other places. in the past. This is not preferred but has been done. Embassy Suites in East Syracuse has 215 rooms. That makes the cut. Embassy Suites next to DestinyUSA has 209 rooms. That makes the cut. The Doubletree in East Syracuse has 250 rooms. That should also be fine for hosting a team. The Aloft in the Syracuse Inner Harbor area has 134 rooms. It is almost new and is almost surely big enough and nice enough to host a team. The Courtyard downtown has 102 rooms. I would think it is big enough to host a basketball team but again, could be wrong. The Parkview Hotel on E Genesee has 83 rooms and is rated as first class for accomodations. I would think it is good to host a team. The Best Western downtown should be okay quality wise but only has 68 rooms. I would think for basketball, that is plenty but I could be wrong. At this point, we have to be getting close to hotels that are too small to host. Not sure what the cut off point is. If it is 200, we only have 4 right now. Thinking about it more, I guess when you factor in players, coaches, staff, families, fans and the press, you probably need at least 100 to host a team and 200 might even be a bare minimum. So there is work to be done. [/QUOTE]

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