Either option would probably eliminate the regional airing of early-round games and could generate significantly more revenue.

But the extension of that policy to early-round games has been considered impractical.

The committee has also wrestled with such unexpected expenses as fixing a dangerous turn in the luge track earlier this year and replacing the ice-making machinery at the secondary hockey arena, where the American men's team will play most of its early-round games.

Read the sports section, watch early-round games until 2 a.m., videotape the highlights on the local news, and fill out an entry for the pool.

We've had only early-round games, so attendance is quite good.

The Tampa Bay Times Forum has hosted early-round games in the men's tournament many times and was the site of the 2008 Women's Final Four.

Then the Australians defeated the United States, 2-1, in 10 innings of an early-round game.

The most intriguing aspect of Thursday's slate of conference tournament games will be watching how a lengthy list of bubble teams fare in early-round games that many of them cannot afford to lose.

This was the last tournament in which early-round games were held at campus sites.

Though the stadium is the smallest of the new ones (30,000 seats) and will be used only for two early-round games, it has become something of an icon for this year's Euro Cup, appearing on advertisements for the event.