With Northwestern having seemingly cliched a spot in the NCAA Tournament, traveling to wherever its first round site is should be a mainstay of hundreds of spring break plans around NU. Finals Week in Evanston winds down just as March Madness kicks off, which makes it all the more important that the ‘Cats play in a fun city to attract as many students and fans as they can. Read below for our staff’s composite rankings of the eight potential first weekend sites, and some explanations on why each person ranked the cities the way they did.
Note: There was a tie for sixth between Birmingham and Albany.