My wife and I were right next to the Stanford Volleyball team Monday night at the airport, and it got me thinking. Does the NCAA or the school cover their costs during postseason play? Thanks.
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That’s a great question. My daughter’s school made the tourney and had to fly to the west coast for their 1st round game. Her athletic dept isn’t swimming in money I can tell you that. Although their Vball team is fully funded. My guess is the ncaa foots the bill.
The NCAA pays travel expenses. That's why in the first weekend they don't seed teams past the top 16. They want teams staying regional to cut down travel costs. They have a standard distance, it might be 400 miles, that if you are closer than that they pay for a team to bus to the game, if it's further than that they pay to fly the team.
That was why Cincinnati got put in Pitt's subregional instead of Penn State's, even though Pitt was the higher seed and Cincinnati was much better than anyone else who got sent to State College. The NCAA considers Pitt a bus ride for Cincinnati but State College is a plane trip, and they don't want to pay for plane trips when they don't "have to".
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