Predicted ’09 regional hosts

I won’t bore you with why I think these school should/will host, but there are a lot of factors I took into account, including regional rankings, which schools hosted in previous seasons, mileage, facilities, etc. The one thing I don’t know is whether all of these school submitted bids to host. What I will say is the NCAA likes to spread around its regionals from year to year. But I don’t think you can deny some of these teams hosting rights in consecutive seasons.

Selected hosts are scheduled for a conference call on Wednesday at 2 p.m. (eastern).

My predictions: UW Oshkosh (hosted last year, No. 1 in Midwest) Washington (No. 1 in Central) Hope (No. 1 in Great Lakes) Juniata (hosted last year, No. 1 in Mid-Atlantic) UMass Boston (No. 2 in New England) New York University* (No. 1 in New York) Southwestern (No. 2 in South) Pacific Lutheran (No. 2 in West) * NYU was selected to host last year but didn’t. Union filled in for NYU at the last minute in 2008.

What do you think?

-Ricky Nelson