Final Fours in the Same City? Not Anytime Soon.

It additionally argued that there was “no sensible approach to acquire the identical stage of company sponsorship and promotional synergies at a separate ladies’s championship in a separate metropolis,” given the N.C.A.A.’s assorted contractual preparations, and stated that the “overwhelming majority” of ladies’s gamers it surveyed about the potential for a blended website supported the idea. The investigators urged that the N.C.A.A. mix the occasions by subsequent 12 months.

That prospect appeared far-fetched to some executives, significantly as a result of the N.C.A.A. had already chosen host cities for each tournaments’ Last Fours by way of 2026. The choice in February, which N.C.A.A. officers stated was unanimous, was for the occasions to stay separate by way of the following cycle of bidding to host the tournaments — making adjustments unlikely till no less than 2032, which coincides with when the present males’s tv rights contract will expire.

Executives stated, although, that they have been contemplating different doable changes, like holding the competitions on separate weekends, that might draw a bigger highlight onto ladies’s basketball. For now, although, N.C.A.A. leaders stated that they had been skeptical of upending a long time of custom.

“It was vital presently for the committee to see the outcomes of the enhancements and the opposite investments that have been being completed within the championship and to essentially pay homage to or proceed to respect what has been constructed across the ladies’s Last 4 already with the fan base and in any other case,” Lynn Holzman, the N.C.A.A.’s vp for ladies’s basketball, stated Wednesday.

The ladies’s Last 4, she famous, has routinely drawn capability crowds within the cities the place it has been performed in recent times, and N.C.A.A. officers are overtly predicting comparable fervor in Minneapolis for the video games on Friday and Sunday.

The match’s schedule, Auriemma advised on Tuesday, is ripe for change — a sentiment others have shared. That will show to be an space the place the N.C.A.A. will bend.

“Two groups performed final evening, Monday evening, to go to the Last 4, and now we play Friday, and we fly out in the present day,” he stated on Tuesday. “The blokes completed Sunday, they usually get Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, after which they play Saturday. Why don’t you handle issues that truly assist youngsters get able to play their finest basketball at a very powerful time of the 12 months?”