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No Final Four college basketball for Glendale
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INDIANAPOLIS — Glendale won't be adding the NCAA men's basketball Final Four to its resume any time soon.
The NCAA announced its sites for the next five-year block and the West Valley city's University of Phoenix Stadium was not among them.
The Final Four will be played at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington in 2014.
The NCAA also awarded the 2016 Final Four to Houston. Those games will be played at Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans.
The 2012 Final Four will be played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, with finals awarded to Atlanta’s Georgia Dome in 2013 and the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in 2015.
The sites were chosen from 10 bids submitted in June.
An NCAA news release said the process to choose sites for the Division I men's basketball tournaments was as "grueling and competitive" as the teams themselves go through to make it.
Also competing to host the tournaments were Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Phoenix.
The 2009 Final Four was previously awarded to Detroit, while the 2010 Final Four will be played in Indianapolis and the 2011 Final Four will be in Houston.
University of Phoenix Stadium has previously hosted a Super Bowl, a BCS national championship game and the Fiesta Bowl. Glendale also is home to the Cardinals, Coyotes and USA Basketball, and will add the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox during Major League Baseball's spring training in 2009.
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