Three reasons the NCAA knows its way to San Jose

1. The Bay Area has been the site of 12 NCAA Tournaments from 1939 to 2017. The host sites have been all over the Bay: at the Cow Palace in Daly City, at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, at Harmon Gym in Berkeley, at the Old Pavilion in Palo Alto, at the old California Coliseum in San Francisco, and in 2002, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2017 in downtown San Jose, which is now called the SAP Center. Arizona’s lone appearance in San Jose was a 2002 Sweet 16 loss to Oklahoma. 

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