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For
Immediate Release – July 8, 2004
Contact: Jody Meacham, 408 / 288-2934, jody@sjsa.org
SAN JOSE (July 8, 2004) – San
Jose has been selected as site of one of four regional
finals in the 2007 NCAA Division I men’s basketball
tournament, bringing the two-day, four-team event back
to the city for the third time in a 10-year span.
San
Jose State University will be the host school for the
San Jose regional finals (the NCAA dropped the term
West Region beginning this year), which will be played
Thursday and Saturday, March 22 and 24, at HP Pavilion.
"This
is a terrific event for the city of San Jose," said
Dean Munro, executive director of the San Jose Sports
Authority. "It has a $5 million economic impact on
downtown,
and it means six hours of national television coverage
on CBS Sports from our city. Plus, it’s exciting
college basketball."
San Jose State will be hosting
its second NCAA men’s
basketball regional final. In 1997, the first time
the school hosted the tournament, the then-named San
Jose
Arena was the fourth of 12 regional and sub-regional
tournament sites to sell out, and the attendance of
18,543 for each of the two sessions remain the two
largest NCAA
basketball tournament crowds in California. Both previous
regional finals were sell-outs.
"We are very excited
about hosting the `Regionals' in 2007," said Chuck
Bell,
the school's
director of athletics. "This is a great opportunity
for us to work with the Sports Authority and HP Pavilion
for the good of the city and the university."
Jim
Goddard, executive vice president and manager of HP
Pavilion, said "We’re proud to host the
tournament in a building that's become synonymous
with college basketball on the West Coast. It will be
the fourth NCAA
basketball championship in HP Pavilion in the last 10
years, including the previous West Region finals in 1997
and 2002 and the NCAA Women’s Final Four in
1999."
The San Jose regional finals of the
2007 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament are
among more than 120 sports events brought to the
city by the San Jose
Sports Authority. Visit our website at www.sjsa.org.
NCAA championships in
San Jose / South Bay
| Year |
Event |
Sport |
Site |
Host School |
 |
| 1996 |
Women’s College Cup |
soccer |
Buck Shaw Stadium |
Santa Clara |
| 1997 |
Men’s West Region |
basketball |
San Jose Arena* |
San Jose State |
| 1999 |
Women’s Final Four |
basketball |
San Jose Arena * |
Stanford |
| 1999 |
Women’s College Cup |
soccer |
Spartan Stadium |
San Jose State |
| 2000 |
Women’s College Cup |
soccer |
Spartan Stadium |
San Jose State |
| 2002 |
Men’s West Region |
basketball |
Compaq Center* |
Santa Clara |
NCAA
championships in San Jose / South Bay
| Year |
Event |
Gender |
Site |
Host School |
|
| 1939 |
Western Regional |
Men’s |
California Coliseum, San Francisco |
- |
| 1953 |
First round |
Men’s |
Old Pavilion, Stanford |
Stanford |
| 1955 |
First round |
Men’s |
Cow Palace, San Francisco |
- |
| 1958 |
First round |
Men’s |
Harmon Arena, UC Berkeley |
California |
| 1958 |
Western Regional |
Men’s |
Cow Palace, San Francisco |
- |
| 1959 |
Western Regional |
Men’s |
Cow Palace, San Francisco |
- |
| 1960 |
First round |
Men’s |
Cow Palace, San Francisco |
- |
| 1960 |
Final Four |
Men’s |
Cow Palace, San Francisco |
- |
| 1982 |
Western Regional |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1989 |
Second round |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1990 |
Second round |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1990 |
West Region final |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1990 |
West Region final |
Men’s |
Oakland-Alameda Co. Coliseum |
California |
| 1991 |
Second round |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1992 |
Second round |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1993 |
Second round |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1994 |
1st & 2nd rounds |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1994 |
West Region final |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1995 |
1st & 2nd rounds |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1995 |
West Region final |
Men’s |
Oakland-Alameda Co. Coliseum |
California |
| 1996 |
1st & 2nd rounds |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1997 |
1st & 2nd rounds |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1997 |
West Region final |
Men’s |
San Jose Arena* |
San Jose State |
| 1998 |
1st & 2nd rounds |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 1999 |
Final Four |
Women’s |
San Jose Arena* |
Stanford |
| 2002 |
1st & 2nd rounds |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 2002 |
West Region final |
Men’s |
Compaq Center* |
Santa Clara |
| 2003 |
1st & 2nd rounds |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
| 2003 |
West Region final |
Women’s |
Maples Pavilion |
Stanford |
* – Previous
names for HP Pavilion |
