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Since the Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships are supposed to be rotated between the schools, Utah, which hosted in 2012, wasn't scheduled to host the event for another five years.

However, it was moved to Salt Lake City due to a possible scheduling conflict with Arizona State's women's basketball team for the NCAA Tournament.

Now officials are realizing they may have to come up with a new way of scheduling the event because the conflict could happen again in the future.

The conflicts are possible because this season marked the first time the Top 16 seeds in the NCAA women's basketball tournament will host the first and second round games.

The Pac-12 is extremely strong in women's basketball with ASU, Cal, Oregon State and Stanford all hosting first- and second-round games this season.

"It is something that we need to look at," Utah gymnastics coach Greg Marsden said. "This could happen more and more frequently."

Right now, Washington is scheduled to host the Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships in 2016, Stanford in 2017 and Arizona in 2018.

NCAA rules dictate the NCAA basketball games must be held at the school site. Marsden said one possibility could be moving the gymnastics championships to another location in the host city.

Possible resolutions will be discussed during the gymnastics coaches meetings at the end of the season.

In the stands

Give Utah's fans credit for being the main reason the Pac-12 decided Utah was the best place for Saturday's event when it became clear it needed to be moved from ASU.

Utah has drawn more fans for the meet than any other location.

Official paid attendance for Saturday's afternoon session was 9,166, and more than 11,500 tickets were sold for the night session.

Utah had a combined attendance of 19,734 combined for its two sessions in 2012.

For comparison, Oregon State had 4,313 combined in 2013 and Cal had just 2,040 last year.

Big thanks

Marsden said part of the challenge in hosting the championships on short notice was the need to find volunteers.

"We had a lot of people who were willing to change their plans and help us out," he said. "They did so enthusiastically and that meant a lot to us."

Gymnastics takes more volunteers than other sporting events because there are four events going on at once. The Utes used 61 volunteers on Saturday, including 21 whose job it was to run the scores to the official table.