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Message: [QUOTE="Bonpland, post: 4218899, member: 6000"] Very old, very tired argument and I apologize for mentioning it again but why don't we play all of out home games at Gampel? I know, I know I've heard the arguments all before about why we play at the XL Center but playing within walking distance of the student body beats them all for me. In years past the HCC was often close to being sold out for most games (in 2008 I promised my HS Senior daughter that we'd see "the girls" play on our way back from New Hampshire and we could only manage to find seats up at the timberline) but that's not the case anymore. I'd rather see them in Gampel in front of their classmates and the rest of us than in the XL Center in front of six or eight thousand people spread out over three times as many seats. It's not going to happen I know but I'm jealous of the on campus home court advantage that Duke, Notre Dame and so many others have for every home game while our girls travel to Hartford to play in a half (and less) filled arena for so many of our games. There's something far more exciting for me when I go to Gampel where the banners hang and I can see students walking from their dorms to watch their classmates play for the premier women's college basketball program in the country. [/QUOTE]