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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 3814753, member: 7171"] Actually, the capacity from January 18, 1978 (43 years ago today) until January 17, 1980 was zero. Anyone who was around Hartford then remembers the huge snowstorm/icestorm - combined with terrible design/construction flaws - that caused the Civic Center roof to collapse. I could look down on it later that morning from my office building. It was sickening. One of my colleagues did some work for the Whalers and he was absolutely frantic. It occurred in the wee hours of the morning. Thank God no one was in there. Hours earlier, UConn had beaten UMass there, 56-49. I don`t recall where the UConn men played during that interim period - the Fieldhouse of course, but maybe elsewhere for some games. New Haven Coliseum maybe? I know that the Whalers moved their home games north to Springfield. The Wikipedia article says that the Civic Center reopened after "extensive renovations". Ya think? The darn roof fell in. I was at the Tennessee game last year, it was a fairly decent crowd to see a game that was fairly ordinary except for the teams involved and the history of the rivalry. The XL Center is an old, outdated arena in dire need of renovation. I would watch on television rather than sitting way up in the 200 sections. There is again talk in Connecticut about spending some significant money to fix it up, but it always seems to come up and nothing seems to happen. Gampel is a much more enjoyable venue. The UConn women drew really well at the then Civic Center back in the Shea Ralph/Swin Cash/Sue Bird era, and they still do ok there but not like back then. I was at the Notre Dame game there a few years ago and that game was on a Sunday afternoon. The Tennessee game, and the South Carolina game in 2019, were on weekday evenings. The UConn women definitely seem to draw better on weekend afternoons than on weekday evenings, both at the XL Center and at Gampel. It is generally a more convenient time for much of their fan base, old, young, and groups busing in from all over. [/QUOTE]

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