SC at the XL center in February

[Skeets]

Generally speaking, which venue gets the primo games? XL is bigger, but doesn’t Gampell have a more raucous and intimidating (student) crowd?

Gampel is more tightly packed, but I don't notice a big difference between venues. Both are relatively sedate compared to men's games. The women have always drawn a somewhat older crowd.

 

[ucbart]

I'm thinking about making the trip down to Colonial Life for a game.

Any travel tips? Best places to stay? Hang out?

 

[TC22]

I think U$C is more appropriate for the real USC (the one in Los Angeles). After all, one of the school's nicknames is The University of Spoiled Children. (As an aside, only foreigners--people from outside Southern California--refer to USC as "Southern Cal." To us, it's always "USC" or "SC.")

The other USC, the one in Columbia, is known (at least to my friends from Chapel Hill) as Lesser Carolina, or Lower Carolina.

Call us whatever you want. We are more often than not called Winners. remember this is a WBB forum.

 

[Skeets]

I don't know. I've had XL tickets since '99 and the games there seem to be spread out more or less evenly throughout the season.

When I had Gampel tickets I really enjoyed games when school was not in session. Much easier to get around, parking, etc. I'm upset my beloved X-Lot parking is gone...

 

[The deacon]

Gampel is more tightly packed, but I don't notice a big difference between venues. Both are relatively sedate compared to men's games. The women have always drawn a somewhat older crowd.

Good point, Skeets, and that coming from a 'somewhat older' folk.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

I'm thinking about making the trip down to Colonial Life for a game.

Any travel tips? Best places to stay? Hang out?

Stay on Main Street or in the Vista (same vicinity), both are walking distance to the arena. I live a block off of Main Street and walk to the games. There's a variety of restaurants and bars. If you need cuisine recommendations, let me know.

 

[uconnfan68]

Doesn’t work well. Most Weest Coasters refer to SoCal as SC more than USC. SCal , the school, also uses SC

There was a court battle about 15 years ago when SCar tried to copyright an interlocking SC design on its then-highly popular baseball cap. SoCal objected. Patents court said no copyright because it creates too much comfusion ( Leonardo decaprio testafied that he wore the “wrong cap” to SOCal games for a couple of years) So, both schools continue to confuse folks by wearing interlocking SC caps that are similar except one is garnet and black the other is garnet and gold. Nobody owns usc or sc ( even though SC is the official abbreviation of South Carolina.

Maybe Southern Cal needs to be “tUSC.”

Their band knows that one.

 

[visitingcock]

I'm thinking about making the trip down to Colonial Life for a game.

Any travel tips? Best places to stay? Hang out?

Gamecocks have sold out season tickets. Remaining 5000 game tickets will go to students, visitors and a few will be held in reserve until gameday. Tickets returned by the visiting school will be sold too - but I doubt UConn will return any. Time to start looking on the scalper sites, (BTW, Iowa has sold out seasons tickets again too.)

Single-game tickets will go on sale to the general public via Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. on Fri., Oct. 18.

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[Boreifs]

It's generally accepted that Geno prefers certain games like Notre Dame at the more intimate (yes, intimidating) Gampel. When your Gamecocks came to CT a couple of years ago, that was at sold-out XL Center. Turned out the site didn't make a difference in that one...

Back in '19-20, a season the Huskies mostly would be glad to forget, SC, Baylor and Oregon (with Sabrina) took turns beating up on the Huskies at the XL Center. That set of games might have been what turned Geno against playing the big ones in Hartford, making the USC game this coming December all the more interesting. Of course, UConn appears far better equipped this time around.

It is at the XL Center because it is Xmas break and the students are gone.

 

[Alydar]

Gampel is more tightly packed, but I don't notice a big difference between venues. Both are relatively sedate compared to men's games. The women have always drawn a somewhat older crowd.

Older and a higher % of children. The mens games are loud and intense. You hear a lot of explicit comments all game that would draw nasty looks if said at a womens game. In the mens game the home crowd can be intimidating, something I've yet to see in wcbb.
In a smaller volume of space 10K can generate a lot of noise and they dedicate a lot more seats to students in Gampel.

 

[The CDR-Ret]

I like UConn's chances vs. USCal and USoCarolina as Geno is in #1 vs. #2 (in the nation) games [2023-24 media guide page 102 (104 pg to print if you download the file]:
Overall: 22-4
As No. 1: 15-2
As No. 2: 7-2

I'm thinking the Huskies will be #2 in the nation when taking on USoCarolina, assuming both are undefeated going into the 2/16/2025 game - two days after Valentine's Day!!! Time to push the record to 8-2 as the #2....

Go Huskies!

 

[Bald Husky]

Generally speaking, which venue gets the primo games? XL is bigger, but doesn’t Gampell have a more raucous and intimidating (student) crowd?

I believe the students are on Christmas break, so the raucousness will not be there.

 

[DEpup]

Hmm. I think it is interesting who they chose for the pictures. The two most important pieces still coming back from injury.

 

[visitingcock]

SCar game will be an ABC broadcast.

 

[cabbie191]

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Not too hard in the past. order as soon as we finish selling season tickets - about a week before the season begins. What’s left will be sold as tickets for individual games. We don’t usually sell out for UConn until after Christmas. If you order in November and you shouldn’t have a problem.

No guarantees!

We got our tickets today - all 8 of them!

I must admit that I found the So Car ticket office website a bit confusing. When I first went to the website last week, it said that tickets would be available starting Friday Oct 18. Today I went online to start scoping out the arena and saw that tickets were available. The site redirect led to very expensive tickets. Went on StubHub and while still expensive, were more affordable.

VC - will you be at the game? Our seats are in section 107!

One of my nieces, btw, is a So Car alumina - she went there for graduate school.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

We got our tickets today - all 8 of them!

I must admit that I found the So Car ticket office website a bit confusing. When I first went to the website last week, it said that tickets would be available starting Friday Oct 18. Today I went online to start scoping out the arena and saw that tickets were available. The site redirect led to very expensive tickets. Went on StubHub and while still expensive, were more affordable.

VC - will you be at the game? Our seats are in section 107!

One of my nieces, btw, is a So Car alumina - she went there for graduate school.

I sit in 105, I'll wave at you.

 

[Cuango]

It is at the XL Center because it is Xmas break and the students are gone.

I think the site likely did make a significant difference in that game, just not quite enough to allow a severely depleted UConn team to come out with a win. Irc, that was a four point win for SC? Hopefully, we will now get a real look at the competitive balance between us and what is clearly our current great rival. All the UConn vs SC games since Covid are imo, essentially meaningless in terms of any kind of evaluation as to which team/program is/was superior vis a vis each other! We have not fielded a fully healthy team against South Carolina since 2019 so, although I do give them their due credit for winning those games, clearly, imo at least, the win/loss record for that period would likely be very different if we had been fully healthy.
Though I realize I’m tempting fate a bit here, I must say that I am looking forward to finally seeing a real, meaningful series of games between these two flagships of Women’s College Basketball! Hopefully, these two teams can now finally, over the next four years or so, engage in a series of games where both teams have a healthy roster that allows an even contest rather than a one sided beatdown largely based on healthy vs injured! Again, I fully appreciate what Dawn has done there and acknowledge SC’s overall dominance over the past few years but it will be nice (knock on wood) to finally be able to play them without one hand being tied behind our back!

 

[visitingcock]

VC - How hard do you think it will be to get tickets to the game? I’m toying with the idea of trying to reserve time at a time share in Myrtle Beach.

I would say it’s a sellout.

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[cockhrnleghrn]

I would say it’s a sellout.

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Season tickets have been sold out for weeks; over 13,000. We should break the NCAA avg attendance record this year; we came close last season.

 

[cabbie191]

I sit in 105, I'll wave at you.

And we'll wave back!

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

And we'll wave back!

Feel free to ask if you need any info about the city or arena.

 

[TC22]

My season tickets are in 104.