Dayton, Ohio is no garden spot. When people plan vacations to this great state they start with Lake Erie, the islands, and Cleveland. They may consider the river, Cincinnati, and the gateway to the Appalachian. Perhaps the more adventurous get a cabin in the Hocking Hills. Dayton, however, must surely be one of the least selected places on Expedia. AirBnB may have Dayton listings, but they probably lagged behind those in Ukraine in sales even before the recent largesse of strangers.
So why does the NCAA punish teams that have won their conference by sending them there? There is nothing in Dayton that will make a trip there to play on either Tuesday or Wednesday significant for reasons other than basketball.