NC State will host 1st and 2nd rounds of 2021 NCAA men’s basketball tournament

The NCAA tournament is coming back to Raleigh.

The NCAA on Tuesday announced men’s tournament host sites for 2019-2022. North Carolina-based sites are in the rotation, and that includes PNC Arena, which will host a 1st/2nd round regional in 2021.

2021 #MarchMadness sites

First Four: Dayton

1st/2nd Rounds
Providence
Detroit
Wichita
Lexington
Dallas
Raleigh
San Jose
Boise#NCAAHost

— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) April 18, 2017

Greensboro also earned a host site in 2020. Neither of these sites would be in North Carolina were it not for the last-minute totally-not-related-to-the-NCAA-deadline “compromise” on House Bill 2.

NC State, of course, could not play in the regional it’s hosting, but that’s fine, since I figure by 2021 we’ll be more than happy to play as a 1-seed somewhere else.

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