If a regional can’t get at least 5k per game or a total for 10k for the two games then they should permanently be off the list to ever host a regional again. The St. Louis regional won’t hit that since the arena seats less then 5k, but if it’s full all three games then they should host.
Let the “crown jewel” arenas of the college hockey host regionals. Good way to get players interested in play D1 when they see actual college arenas host a regional.
I see no reason to not add a week between when the conference tournaments end and the NCAA regionals begin. Gives more time to get fans to the games.
After watching this years tournament, and really the last few, they need to stop with the “refs have to be from a different conference then the teams playing.” One penalties barely get called in the tournament. Second I’d rather have the best refs in the NCAA calling games, if the refs happen to be from the same conference then so be it. It’s not a problem during the season playing out of conference games, but tournament time it is.