Having the women’s event in TD Garden was (and hopefully continues to be) a great move. There’s so many issues with discarding the consolations to combine the event, but among them are: (1) impact on advance sales, since you can’t guarantee any school appears in any capacity until 1 week before, (2) loss of a scheduled game, which has a fixed cap and for which the Beanpot is a non-exempt tournament, with both games counting against that cap, and (3) permanently relegation of the women’s final to undercard status, which this year’s final was a step against.