The news right now, five years ahead of the men's tournament returning to Portland, is that Oregon State is the host school. That's why it's an OSU basketball story. If your Magic 8-ball says this is great news for the Ducks, despite its inability to forecast who those players or even their coach might be to produce that automatic high seed in 2022, that only confirms what a rabid fanboy considers news.

Also, why aren't you jumping up and down over OSU hosting the women's regionals in Portland two and three years from now, when the current crop of Oregon freshmen will be juniors and seniors? Not a Kelly Graves fan or does the women's game not qualify as "real" DuckHoops?

Truth is, the women's regionals being in Portland in 2019 and '20 should have been the story and not the afterthought.