zls44
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Nah, I'd rather compare it to UConn playing Michigan State in the Garden a few years back.Wanna compare AAC tournament tickets in Hartford? I bought a full tourney pass for $20 last year.
The ACC's experience at Barclays Center last year was positive. The Semifinals had sold out attendance. But both the Barclays Center and MSG have long term contracts with the Atlantic 10 and the Big East respectively. And MSG only wants a long term annual agreement. The ACC had to negotiate with the Atlantic 10 to use Barclays Center, and the ACC had to agree to many games with the A10. So I don't know how often we'll be able to do New York. We'll see how it goes this year.The Barclay may do better than Greensboro...
From last year...
"According to TicketIQ.com, which aggregates resale market sites, Friday night’s semifinals at Barclays Center are the most expensive the site ever has recorded, by far.
The $519 average price for Friday night is roughly double what semifinal tickets have gone for over the past five tournaments, three of them in Greensboro and one each in Atlanta and Washington - two other big cities that Boeheim endorsed as ACC sites over Greensboro."
>>One and done. That was essentially the message from Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, who told the Tribune on Friday the conference tournament would return to Madison Square Garden in New York only if the Big Ten can have the premier weekend — the one the Big East has had locked in since 1983.<<
>>“I know we will be back out East. Where we will be, I don’t know. It won’t be on a regular basis. I expect that 80 percent will be in legacy territory (Chicago and Indianapolis) and probably 20 percent out East, whether it’s in D.C. or Philadelphia or New York.”<<
As a New Yorker, I know that everyone in NYC is so excited over this tourney this year! Brooklynites are kvelling! They are predicting people to be camping out outside Barclays Center this year who are not homeless! (PS: I know a place where one can get an AirBnb room nearby if you are interested, PM me, but bring your gun!). The City is abuzz! Knickerbockers love the great academics that the ACC brings to NYC! I am predicting a Louisville-UNC Championship!The ACC's experience at Barclays Center last year was positive. The Semifinals had sold out attendance. But both the Barclays Center and MSG have long term contracts with the Atlantic 10 and the Big East respectively. And MSG only wants a long term annual agreement. The ACC had to negotiate with the Atlantic 10 to use Barclays Center, and the ACC had to agree to many games with the A10. So I don't know how often we'll be able to do New York. We'll see how it goes this year.
As a New Yorker, I know that everyone in NYC is so excited over this tourney this year! Brooklynites are kvelling! They are predicting people to be camping out outside Barclays Center this year who are not homeless! (PS: I know a place where one can get an AirBnb room nearby if you are interested, PM me, but bring your gun!). The City is abuzz! Knickerbockers love the great academics that the ACC brings to NYC! I am predicting a Louisville-UNC Championship!
I absolutely agree with you, but overall this is very bad news for any hope of UConn eventually getting to the B1G. No question UConn fans would fill MSG. No question UConn would have been competitive if they had been selected to a P5 back in 2012.Put the Big Ten tournament in two of the four most populated areas in the country — greater New York City is first, greater Washington, D.C., fourth — and the league can’t fill the building. Why? Because ....
Because Jim picked the wrong NYC DMA team if his goal was to fill MSG.
Not sure I agree. To me it shows that the Rutgers play, although great financially, does not do enough to stake a NY presence. A UConn add would shore up NYC and also serve as a gateway into New England.I absolutely agree with you, but overall this is very bad news for any hope of UConn eventually getting to the B1G.
I agree that UConn fans would fill the Garden and the press would play it up in the New York City papers and thus it would be in the minds of many. I also agree that very few people east of the Hudson River cares much about Rutgers athletics. Maybe they should have had the Big Ten tourney in the Meadowlands. Of course, if UConn basketball continues on its downward spiral, then attendance after the first game would be down anyways. It would UConn-Rutgers in the first game and then both would be out.Not sure I agree. To me it shows that the Rutgers play, although great financially, does not do enough to stake a NY presence. A UConn add would shore up NYC and also serve as a gateway into New England.
Um, perhaps phenomenally good basketball played by some the nation's best teams contributed to the experience just a bit?What made the Big East Tournament so special is that it was held in the same place every year that was relatively convenient for most of the schools involved.