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How do
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Do you
get sore traveling? Imagine being 7' tall |
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From marchmadman Updated 03/18/26, 9:15pm |
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Everybody
is looking for that tidbit of information that could help select the perfect
bracket. Some research every team. Some
pick by mascots. Some
chose by colors. Some
watch nonstop Sportscenter and CBSSN. All
equally effective excuse me ineffective. One thing
you can consider is the team s travel distance to their first game. California
Baptist is making their first ever Tournament appearance. The
Selection Committee honored them with a 13-seed, keeping them out of the
First Four play-in games in Dayton. They
did one better. The
Committee gave them one of the shortest travel distances of all tourney teams
85 miles from their home in Riverside CA to San Diego where they will take on
(4) Kansas. You're
not in Kansas anymore, Kansas. And
the team with the longest unbeaten streak this season Miami (OH) DID get sent
to a First Four play-in game. But since that is in
Dayton, expect to see a lot of Redhawks making that
40-mile commute. |
Some
first-game trips are incredibly far. The
longest travel distance Well,
that is Hawaii of course. Even
though the Rainbow Warriors are playing on the West Coast, they still have a
2600-mile trip to Portland, OR. (Is that boat or
plane?) That's
what you get for being from Hawaii.
Along with perfect weather all year round. The
next longest trips all have teams flying from one coast to the other: St.
John's, Long Island, Villanova, and Kennesaw (GA) all have
to travel to San Diego (2440, 2430, 2360, 2150 miles respectively) UCLA has to travel to Philadelphia (2400 miles) NC
State (Raleigh) and High Pont (also in NC) have to
travel to Portland, OR (2370 & 2300 miles). Six
of the teams in the West region have to travel over
2000 miles to their first game; two in the East region are traveling over
2000 miles. None in the South or Midwest regions. The
NCAA has specific parameters on how teams get to their venues. |
Any
team that has to travel at least 400 miles during
the opening weekend is eligible to take a flight chartered by the NCAA. That drops to 350 miles for the regional finals and the
Final Four. Schools
that are closer than those parameters can receive up to $1,500 per day for
ground transportation. Get
ready for those 5-6 hour bus rides Arizona, Ohio
State, Nebraska, Kentucky, Texas A&M, VCU, UMBC, and Howard. Well,
I'm sure most of those schools will pickup the
difference to fly their teams charter instead of going Greyhound. UMBC,
I'm not so sure. To
see all the travel distances, check out this article from The Athletic.
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