GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jim Phillips, Commissioner of the ACC weighed in on the state of the women's basketball tournament in Greensboro.
The tournament has been held in Greensboro for over 2 decades but with the ACC headquarters move to Charlotte fans are wondering what will the future of the tournament be in Greensboro?
Phillips said they are carefully weighing the decision.
He released this statement:
We are talking with our coaches looking at scheduling in totality, Greensboro has been a wonderful home for the women's tournament and for the men's tournament. We will certainly continue to populate Greensboro with our championship.
But we're in a new home, as well, in Charlotte, and we want to take advantage of this world-class city. I think what you're going to see this fall is you'll see an announcement that will take us maybe over the next three or four years with our basketball tournaments as well as our Olympic sports.
Here in the state of North Carolina, there were some commitments that we made to the state in order to stay here and receive some funding. We'll honor those commitments contractually, et cetera, but this is a really nice place for us, Charlotte with some games in Greensboro.
But then we've also been up the coast some and we look forward to being in Washington, D.C. on the men's side come March and on the women's side back to Greensboro.
Again, I love the choices we have as we look at future in championships, not only in the basketballs, but also in our Olympic sports.
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