A10 Tournament Thread

[GreenLantern]

We may be done today, but we have what it takes to move up next year with our incoming class and transfer! This team at full strength will challenge for the top of the A10!

 

[GMU_DCU]

We may be done today, but we have what it takes to move up next year with our incoming class and transfer! This team at full strength will challenge for the top of the A10!

The offseason is soooooooo long

 

[patriot2000]

I have extremely high hopes for next year but that makes the off-season even longer

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[FreeGunston12]

So was having the tournament in DC a complete and utter failure? Mason,vcu, Richmond, GW all knocked out before the weekend. Crowds have been pathetic so far.

 

[GMUgemini]

So was having the tournament in DC a complete and utter failure? Mason,vcu, Richmond, GW all knocked out before the weekend. Crowds have been pathetic so far.

I mean, the tournament has gone chalk so far other than UMass beating La Salle, right? I don't know that I'd call that a failure. Let's see what Saturday and Sunday bring in terms of crowd size before we judge?

 

[GSII]

Look no further than our very own crowd/fan base to call pathetic before anyone elses. We should be ashamed at the turnout. Home games too.

 

[GMUgemini]

Look no further than our very own crowd/fan base to call pathetic before anyone elses. We should be ashamed at the turnout. Home games too.

It's going to be a show me crowd next year, too. IF this team is vastly improved, we probably won't see the turnout until the last 3 or 4 home games of the season.

 

[Washingtonian]

Bonaventure brought out a lot of people. I am curious how many seats are in the lower bowl, because outside of the suites, nothing else was being sold.

 

[mkaufman1]

The attendance is sad but you have to understand where the program has been and it’s the same dead horse. When you’ve been a losing program for several years, don’t win at home as much as you should, fan interest is killed off. I too was surprised at the turnout this afternoon, but Thursday and Friday afternoon games aren’t ideal for most people. I suspect if they won today tomorrow would have more. Next year it should improve but the program has to have a bit more success for interest to come back up.

That said attendance other than Bonaventure and vcu was pretty poor in general. It is what it is but the league wasn’t as good this year and the local schools weren’t as good (vcu Richmond gmu gw etc)

 

[Five Two]

Were our students on spring break?
Given how far St Bona students had to travel, they had a great turnout yesterday.

 

[JimP]

For a school their size, Bona has a very impressive fan base. Remarkable really - they have only made the tourney twice since 2000 and I am not sure the last time they actually won a game.

I Imagine a lot of GMU fans who bad to work would've made it the team was playing today.

 

[PoorManProfit]

So was having the tournament in DC a complete and utter failure? Mason,vcu, Richmond, GW all knocked out before the weekend. Crowds have been pathetic so far.

Again, this tournament playing in a large venue is a bad, bad look.

 

[PoorManProfit]

Look no further than our very own crowd/fan base to call pathetic before anyone elses. We should be ashamed at the turnout. Home games too.

Yup. I see too many posts that disparage other A10 schools gyms as “high-schoolish,” while Patriot Center is littered with empty seats continually. Stay in your lane folks.

 

[GMUgemini]

Yup. I see too many posts that disparage other A10 schools gyms as “high-schoolish,” while Patriot Center is littered with empty seats continually. Stay in your lane folks.

Infrastructure and crowd size are two separate things.


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[mkaufman1]

Were our students on spring break?
Given how far St Bona students had to travel, they had a great turnout yesterday.

Yes it was spring break. And yes they had a great turnout. As I discussed with Masonfanatic we have no idea if basketball is a “thing” there, if it’s because they are winning or what it is. But they had the best turnout of any students, but I suspect a lot was because the program is doing well.

 

[Walter]

Some schools bus students to tourney games. Maybe St. Bonaventure did.

 

[Walter]

Where is the tournament next year?

 

[GMUgemini]

Where is the tournament next year?

Back in New York.


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[GMUgemini]

Some numbers for context for St. Bonaventure:

2013: 3,928 per game
2017: 4,123

It looks like those numbers are fairly consistent over the last 10 years with a low of about 3,500 and 4,100 and change being the height.

Capacity: 5,480

 

[Washingtonian]

Back in New York.


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Brooklyn (through 2021) to be exact.
Small suggestion for those thinking of making the trip next year. Take Amtrak. The tolls add up (it is $15 just to get into NY, and maybe more depending which route you take), and Amtrak drops off at Penn Station, then you can use NY Transit to get around including a stop directly to the Barclays Center. NY Transit is a flat $2.75 rate regardless of distance traveled.

I wouldn't be surprised if Bonaventure bused in people but I was thinking that some people probably decided to make a weekend out of it and play tourist, especially since their game was at 6 last night. If those people did research, they would know how easy Metro is to use for this game and they wouldn't have to stay in downtown DC (Crystal City is one option, for example).

Mason's spring break starts Monday, and I suspect there were a lot of mid terms given the last two days. Back in the CAA days, this was never an issue since the tournament was played earlier in March. If you went to the box office and bought a ticket, you were put in one of the end zones. There were people in suites that I suspect got tickets on Stubhub but they were between the 200 and 400 level. I didn't buy the book of tickets because I knew I couldn't make one of the sessions for certain, but the title game face value is $89.00.

It will be interesting to see who bids on this tournament before the Brooklyn deal is up. I wouldn't be surprised if DC does it again, since you got 3 schools within 2 hours of the arena.