NCAA selects men’s Final Four sites for 2017-21

The NCAA men’s basketball championship is going West in 2017. Phoenix is one of five future Final Four sties chosen Friday by the men’s basketball committee. The others are San Antonio in 2018, Minneapolis in 2019, Atlanta in 2020 and Indianapolis in 2021. Indianapolis, where the NCAA is based, was selected even though the committee was only expected to award games through 2020. Three other cities, including St. Louis, also made bids. The NCAA last played a Final Four in the Pacific time zone in 1995 when Seattle was the host site. Indy is hosting the Final Four this season, the seventh time the city has hosted the event. – AP