March Madness Housing Madness

This Washington Post article details how housing for the teams participating in the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is determined by the team seedings. The net-net is that the higher seeds get the better hotels, but instead of it being that the top seeds are in a Marriott and the bottom seeds are in a Hyatt, it's more like the top seeds are at the Four Seasons and the bottom seeds are at a Motel 6 the next town over. This is just wrong. All of these games are being hosted in cities of a decent size (I mean, they need a 15K+ seat basketball arena) and putting some in a dump while the others are in a fancy hotel just isn't fair. I know the NCAA caters to the big power conferences, but some of those 10 and 11 seeds come from the Big 10, Big 12 and Big East, too. I'm sure the Illinois team (a 12-seed this time around) is probably a bit ticked off they had to stay in a place so much worse than their higher seeded brethren, for example. It seems like this would be really easy to fix and the NCAA should be ashamed of such outright favoritism.