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Message: [QUOTE="CCSUBlue92, post: 5215215, member: 7116"] As any Central fan will tell you, we don't want to play at the XL Center. There's something magical about playing a championship game at Detrick Gymnasium. Btw, in 2002, CCSU oversold the tickets by almost 1000! In 2007, they oversold by 600. So, yeah, the gym only holds 2500, but that's not stopping us from packing in over 3000 crazy fans. (And we're not inviting the fire marshal.) :) Having said all that, would we LOVE a new arena? Yessir! Would we settle for a major facelift--adding some permanent seating...bringing the seating closer to the court...adding a concourse halfway up....??? Yeah, I think we could live with that. The problem is--and I know this won't be a popular sentiment on the Boneyard--we're operating on a bare bones budget while UConn has a tremendous amount of resources from private donors and the State. The State of Connecticut funds CCSU as if it's a D3 school. Makes things REALLY tough. [/QUOTE]