No. But the low seed shouldn't be getting home court. Why not wait until after the selection, and give play that 4-team pod at UCLA? That's not fair either, but at least the top seeds can actually get the benefit of being the better seeds.
They used to do it that way, then they decided to try the POD system like the men's tourney, with one caveat -
if your school was hosting a POD, you got to play at home. The problem, nobody showed up to the games when their team wasn't playing. So, you had empty arenas, which didn't make any $$$$$. Look at the year Iowa played in Denver, 3700 people in a 19000 seat arena looked really bad on TV.
So, the NCAA went back to the sub-regional format with four teams playing at a site, because they want fannies in the stands. The only difference when they went back to the sub-regional format was they started awarding sites
two years out instead of the top seed in the sub-regional automatically hosting, so the schools hosting could ensure their venue was available. If you recall, in 2002 Iowa was the # 4 seed and supposed to host, but CHA was already booked, so they ended up going to Utah to play. This is why they did the two years in advance, so schools could make sure their arena was open.
Plain and simple, Gonzaga put a bid in and won to host first/second round games, and because the women's committee allows host schools to play on their home floor in the first/second round. If Iowa continues to use this as an excuse, we look like sore losers.
We had a seven point lead, everything going in our favor and fell apart. We let two players light us up, and made no defensive adjustments to make one of the other three players beat us.