You may be wondering how the University of Utah's basketball team was even in Coeur d'Alene

The NCAA loves to hold March Madness subregionals in Spokane, WA. They've done it before and they've always received a lot of support from this city.

So...how better to show your love than to put both a men's subregional (eight teams) and a women's subregional (four) into Spokane on the same weekend?

Apparently the people who scheduled this disaster have never actually been to Spokane, because there aren't enough hotel rooms in the Spokane Metro Area to handle eleven college basketball teams and all their fans. (It was a good thing for us that Gonzaga's women's team played at home. They would have been stuffing fans down at the Coeur d'Alene Casino in Worley, the Edgewater Resort in Sandpoint, and Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg if we'd have had to deal with twelve teams.) The NCAA granted Spokane an exception to policy that allowed them to house teams outside Spokane...and two teams, including the University of Utah's women's team, were housed at the Coeur d'Alene Resort. And you know the aftermath...once again, Coeur d'Alene is on the front page of every newspaper in the country for all the wrong reasons.