Fwiw--

[Jake]

I hear dome will not get 2013 NCAA tourney.

 

[PauliePeppas]

Barclays?

 

[Jake]

Dc

 

[PauliePeppas]

Nice, philly to dc sounds good to me

 

[netman99]

Dc

thats good news...

 

[themorey]

What a coincidence...I live in DC. Now if I can only get the Cuse to play in it I'm all set.

 

[gilardino]

fantastic, and if we get DC, memo to people with young kids(me included), the east regional final is saturday night, night before easter. start working on the wives now, buy extra flowers, do what you have to do, I know I will :)

 

[rrlbees]

Nice, philly to dc sounds good to me

ditto

 

[orange79]

I hear dome will not get 2013 NCAA tourney.

That came out of nowhere.

Edit - the DC part

 

[gilardino]

I wish buffalo or albany would get the east regional

 

[sutomcat]

Dc

Who knows if it will even happen but in a perfect world, it would have been held in Brooklyn or Newark this year and MSG next year. With the possible exception of Buffalo, the NYC area is where we are going to have the strongest turnout of Syracuse fans.

I bet that the reason they went with DC is that they are going to go with MSG next year, and they didn't want to have the Eastern Regional in the NYC area two years in a row.

2009 Eastern regional: Boston
2010 Eastern regional: Syracuse
2011 Eastern regional: Boston
2012 Eastern regional: Washington DC
2013 Eastern regional: TBD (all the other sites have been announced, MSG?)

I would think the 2014 venue will almost surely be in North Carolina, which means the earliest we might see an Eastern Regional in Syracuse is 2015. We should have hundreds of new hotels built by then.