Really? So which of two identical temporary basketball courts are assembled identically on an IPF that a team has played on once or twice before is an advantage?
If it comes down to that, then we are all in trouble.
Having the tournament on a neutral floor (and, no the BJCC is not really a neutral floor) is a move forward for the league, IMHO. All of the major and most of the mid-major leagues play a tournament not on a team's home court. We have mostly played on the home floor of a team that thought it was going to win that year. Birmingham, El Paso, Memphis, and Tulsa (albeit not UAB or Tulsa actual home floor) as more or less an extension of the host team's regular season schedule. Playing in the Dallas suburbs and being associated with the Cowboys is better than giving UAB four extra home games in an old building that bigger leagues and NCAA regionals quit using decades ago in that garden spot of prosperity and crossroads of America, Birmingham, Alabama.
This is a spread out league. The conference tournament is an event for hardcore fans only except for one or two schools due to distance, and if the Title IX people would let us, the women's tournaament could be held at a middle school and have seats left over. It is a heck of a lot easier to get to Dallas than Birmingham or El Paso.
Where exactly should the tournament be held and what, exactly, is your plan for making any money on that at all?
This is way superior to giving UAB, or UTEP, extra home games. THAT is bush league.
