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Maryland WBB Fans Upset About Lack of Bridgeport Tickets

If having 17,000 fans in the Xfinity Center at College Park, Maryland didn't help you on December 29th, why make a fuss about not having enough Fan support at Bridgeport for this game? Fan support obviously isn't enough to get you the win..

Focus on preparing your team, deal with it... Schedule tougher opponents win games and get a better seeding Brenda, so that next year you and your fan base might be able to purchase tickets in advance, because they will know where you will be playing..
 
Ok, here's some numbers to assess before making blanket statements:
2015 NCAA Tourn attendance neutral site 10 sessions-8,900 per site
2016 NCAA Tourn attendance neutral site 10 sessionso-8,133 per site.
2015 West Reg Final Spokane -MD vs. Tenn 5,032
2015 South Reg Final Greensboro - SC vs. FSU 6,364
2015 East Reg Final Alabama- Dayton vs. UConn N/A
2016 East Reg Final Bridgeport- Tex vs. UConn 9,088
2016 south Reg Final Dallas- Bay vs. OSU 6,050
2016 Midwest Reg Final- Stan vs. Wash 3,349
2016 West Reg Final- Sioux City Syracuse vs. Tenn 4,055

Ave attendance is skewed by 37,530 attending Final Four in 2015
With 29,500 attending Final Four in 2016.
Using some math, Regional sites averaged
6,184 in 2015 and
6,479 in 2016.

The take away is Bridgeport has supported the Regional very well. The numbers for Albany weren't listed but my math can surmise it too had higher numbers than the others.

What does this mean? 2015 was disappointing with SC only getting 6,364 in Greensboro and Baylor disappointing last year with 6,050 in Dallas. Other sites were truly neutral and didn't draw well. It makes sense why neutral sites can't be used. Also that MD CAN'T complain given the general support that the regions get.

Only the Final Four sells out big arena's and shows that WCBB still has a ways to go for full public support when compared to Men's. That is not taking a swipe at anyone, just perspective for us fanatics to consider.
 
As a fan, though, I feel for those who couldn't get tickets (tho I think they can still get them through resellers). It wouldn't hurt to reserve more tickets for four teams. Once those teams are selected, they get a couple of days to sell them before they are available to others. Wont matter for the regions that don't sellout and will ensure each team has a chance at fan support in places like Bridgeport.
 
DefenseBB said:
Ok, here's some numbers to assess before making blanket statements:
2015 NCAA Tourn attendance neutral site 10 sessions-8,900 per site
2016 NCAA Tourn attendance neutral site 10 sessionso-8,133 per site.
2015 West Reg Final Spokane -MD vs. Tenn 5,032
2015 South Reg Final Greensboro - SC vs. FSU 6,364
2015 East Reg Final Alabama- Dayton vs. UConn N/A
2016 East Reg Final Bridgeport- Tex vs. UConn 9,088
2016 south Reg Final Dallas- Bay vs. OSU 6,050
2016 Midwest Reg Final- Stan vs. Wash 3,349
2016 West Reg Final- Sioux City Syracuse vs. Tenn 4,055

Ave attendance is skewed by 37,530 attending Final Four in 2015
With 29,500 attending Final Four in 2016.
Using some math, Regional sites averaged
6,184 in 2015 and
6,479 in 2016.

The take away is Bridgeport has supported the Regional very well. The numbers for Albany weren't listed but my math can surmise it too had higher numbers than the others.

What does this mean? 2015 was disappointing with SC only getting 6,364 in Greensboro and Baylor disappointing last year with 6,050 in Dallas. Other sites were truly neutral and didn't draw well. It makes sense why neutral sites can't be used. Also that MD CAN'T complain given the general support that the regions get.

Only the Final Four sells out big arena's and shows that WCBB still has a ways to go for full public support when compared to Men's. That is not taking a swipe at anyone, just perspective for us fanatics to consider.
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The Times Union Center in Albany seats around 15,500. I was at the regionals 2 years ago when they were played there. They had shut down the upper tier, but the lower tier was absolutely packed, so I'm figuring 8-9,000 fans or so.
 
oldude said:
I purchased 4 tickets to the Bridgeport regional back on Jan 2. If UConn had ended up anywhere else, I would have been screwed. Sorry, I just don't have any sympathy for a turtle fan without a ticket.
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Really? You're trying to sell this analogy? Chances of UCONN going to Bridgeport were 99.9%.
 
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Bajan Best said:
If having 17,000 fans in the Xfinity Center at College Park, Maryland didn't help you on December 29th, why make a fuss about not having enough Fan support at Bridgeport for this game? Fan support obviously isn't enough to get you the win..

Focus on preparing your team, deal with it... Schedule tougher opponents win games and get a better seeding Brenda, so that next year you and your fan base might be able to purchase tickets in advance, because they will know where you will be playing..
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If the shoe was on the other foot you'd be yelling that you got robbed. And you'd be right.
 
Based on the Uconn archives the attendance in Albany was: 8259 in S16 (TX) and 7686 in the E8 (Dayton). The first game was a 12 Noon start so Sat or Sun, and the second was 7PM so Mon or Tues.

And based on the Bridgeport numbers for the Stewart/Tuck/Jefferson class's last CT games they probably weren't actually expecting a sell-out at Bridgeport. If they had anticipated it maybe they would have reserved some more tickets for after the bracket announcement.
 
UcMiami said:
Based on the Uconn archives the attendance in Albany was: 8259 in S16 (TX) and 7686 in the E8 (Dayton). The first game was a 12 Noon start so Sat or Sun, and the second was 7PM so Mon or Tues.
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Saturday and Monday
 
Normally, there would be plenty of tickets available, but UConn figured their team would be in the Bridgeport region and so snapped them up. There's nothing wrong with that, at all. Because (and this is obviously a hypothetical) there was no guarantee that UConn would actually be sent there - it just made the most sense. So fans were taking a gamble in that sense. Maryland fans could have done the same thing. And if the normal allocation is 100, why would the NCAA change it?

Maryland's problem is that they weren't a 1 or 2 seed, and so they had much less control over where they were sent. If they had been a likely 1 seed, like UConn, they could have figured out their region earlier and bought tickets accordingly.
 
sarals24 said:
Normally, there would be plenty of tickets available, but UConn figured their team would be in the Bridgeport region and so snapped them up. There's nothing wrong with that, at all. Because (and this is obviously a hypothetical) there was no guarantee that UConn would actually be sent there - it just made the most sense. So fans were taking a gamble in that sense. Maryland fans could have done the same thing. And if the normal allocation is 100, why would the NCAA change it?

Maryland's problem is that they weren't a 1 or 2 seed, and so they had much less control over where they were sent. If they had been a likely 1 seed, like UConn, they could have figured out their region earlier and bought tickets accordingly.
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Your second paragraph dispels the ridiculous argument that you put forth in the first. UCONN fans bought tickets early to the Bridgeport regional because the chances of their team going there were 99.9%. Not much of a gamble, if you ask me. Maryland's fans would have had to have been crazy to buy them in advance.
 
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ericsandiego said:
They have a valid point. Perhaps Hartford should host the regionals instead of Bridgeport - Hartford seats 16,000 while it's only 7,800 in Bridgeport. It hardly seems fair that only 300 total seats were reserved for the other 3 teams in the regional, but the rest of the seats were sold out BEFORE the NCAA even announced the brackets.
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I wonder how this plays out in the other regions---do the locals buy out the seating?? Seem a bit normal. Your point is well taken

about the 16000 plus XL center--but I think they had some issues in filling those seats, didn' t they?? 300 out of 7800 less than 5 percent set aside---you are right this does seem much too few--
 
BroadwayVa said:
I wonder how this plays out in the other regions---do the locals buy out the seating?? Seem a bit normal. Your point is well taken
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Broadway, really? I do all the hard work of researching the attendance and then you ask that question?

NO the locals DON'T BUY the other regions out. That's the whole point of this. Even in Dallas last year for Baylor attendance was poor. Greensboro SC where SC was did better but not as good as UConn in Bridgeport. :)
 
Too bad MD fans were not too upset to go watch them play last week in College Park.........They had 14,000 empty seats ............
 
DefenseBB said:
Broadway, really? I do all the hard work of researching the attendance and then you ask that question?

NO the locals DON'T BUY the other regions out. That's the whole point of this. Even in Dallas last year for Baylor attendance was poor. Greensboro SC where SC was did better but not as good as UConn in Bridgeport. :)
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I appreciate your hard work--honestly, my wonder was about whether they were having ticket issues as MD is having in Bport.
Seems to me that, as bias as it may appear to MD, it is what it is---and dependent upon your belief where you will play---in big time games, ie. the sweet 16/elite 8--you have to be first to get a seat. As long as Uconn keeps winning---fans will follow---fans love winners--
 
I guess we could do a little cruising on Stubhub and see...as Arnold once said "I'll be baaack!"....
 
OldAlum said:
As a fan, though, I feel for those who couldn't get tickets (tho I think they can still get them through resellers). It wouldn't hurt to reserve more tickets for four teams. Once those teams are selected, they get a couple of days to sell them before they are available to others. Wont matter for the regions that don't sellout and will ensure each team has a chance at fan support in places like Bridgeport.
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This or another reasonable resolution to this situation would go a long way towards improving the situation in question. Because it is just a bit unfair to programs that do not know where they will be playing in regionals.
 
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BroadwayVa said:
I wonder how this plays out in the other regions---do the locals buy out the seating?? Seem a bit normal. Your point is well taken about the 16000 plus XL center--but I think they had some issues in filling those seats, didn' t they?? 300 out of 7800 less than 5 percent set aside---you are right this does seem much too few--
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FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THIS THREAD:
Hartford as a host site for a regional would sell maybe 2000 tickets, BECAUSE UCONN CAN NOT PLAY A REGIONAL IN HARTFORD based on the current rules for the women's NCAA tournament. So the issue of Hartford having a greater seating capacity is moot. When the rules changed to host schools for the first two rounds and neutral regional sites, Hartford stopped bidding for tournament games because it would have been a disaster for them, unless they decided to not host Uconn regular season games. It was at that point that Albany stepped in and Bridgeport renewed their bidding.
 
UcMiami said:
FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THIS THREAD:
Hartford as a host site for a regional would sell maybe 2000 tickets, BECAUSE UCONN CAN NOT PLAY A REGIONAL IN HARTFORD based on the current rules for the women's NCAA tournament. So the issue of Hartford having a greater seating capacity is moot. When the rules changed to host schools for the first two rounds and neutral regional sites, Hartford stopped bidding for tournament games because it would have been a disaster for them, unless they decided to not host Uconn regular season games. It was at that point that Albany stepped in and Bridgeport renewed their bidding.
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Easy UcM. Bunch of old guys on this forum subject to senior moments. Most of us have difficulty remembering if we ate breakfast today. ;)
 
Huskie78 said:
^^ Right there! Nothing is ever "sold out". Just gotta know where to look and how badly do you REALLY wanna be there? ;)
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Go on vivid seats it's like 20% cheaper and u can get 40.oo off codes
 
Charliebball said:
'the Vivid Seats site had a better selection
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Ok, you get that I am just trying to see what's available vs. the Bridgeport Region and Don't want to buy right? Mine is a comparison of availability by region. :eek:
JustinesGuy said:
Go on vivid seats it's like 20% cheaper and u can get 40.oo off codes
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You guys are killing me! :confused:
 
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DefenseBB said:
Ok, you get that I am just trying to see what's available vs. the Bridgeport Region and Don't want to buy right? Mine is a comparison of availability by region. :eek:

You guys are killing me! :confused:
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Sorry my bad.
 
UcMiami said:
FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THIS THREAD:
Hartford as a host site for a regional would sell maybe 2000 tickets, BECAUSE UCONN CAN NOT PLAY A REGIONAL IN HARTFORD based on the current rules for the women's NCAA tournament. So the issue of Hartford having a greater seating capacity is moot. When the rules changed to host schools for the first two rounds and neutral regional sites, Hartford stopped bidding for tournament games because it would have been a disaster for them, unless they decided to not host Uconn regular season games. It was at that point that Albany stepped in and Bridgeport renewed their bidding.
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Got it the first time you posted it--- you are posting about what IS---most are posting of what could be-- if the anticipated fans being in the apparent numbers--a venue of appropriate size seems to have been overlooked. -Dont take it as a personal affront--we actually read what you write;; BUT THE CAPITAL LETTERS HURT MY EARS---FIRST TIME--SECOND TIME OR REGIONAL. and I am deaf...

Part 2---You do realize if you feel offended--you really don't have to reply!!.
 
UcMiami said:
FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THIS THREAD:
Hartford as a host site for a regional would sell maybe 2000 tickets, BECAUSE UCONN CAN NOT PLAY A REGIONAL IN HARTFORD based on the current rules for the women's NCAA tournament. So the issue of Hartford having a greater seating capacity is moot. When the rules changed to host schools for the first two rounds and neutral regional sites, Hartford stopped bidding for tournament games because it would have been a disaster for them, unless they decided to not host Uconn regular season games. It was at that point that Albany stepped in and Bridgeport renewed their bidding.
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It is amazing ... read the whole thread before posting is usually a good idea. 'Course there is the whole comprehension issue. :rolleyes:
 
Maryland is a land of crabs, so this works so appropriately as an expression of my feelings about the belly aching.

 
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