NCAA Tournament in Jax in March

[BridgeTroll]

Just my luck... I am out of town...  Go Badgers!

[copperfiend]

4 Wisconsin
13 Wofford (1st time ever in Dance, will travel very well).

Wisconsin has a huge fanbase that travels well too. And what person in Wisconsin doesn't want to come to Florida in mid-March.

[fieldafm]

Single day tickets are now available(instead of the two day tickets).  If you're interested in going, nows the time to buy!

[tufsu1]

that's probably because the schools (like Temple sadly) returned some of their session tickets....which means they may even be lower bowl seats

[tufsu1]

btw...some great first round games to start the tourney...ODU beats ND by 1 point, Robert Morris takes Villanova to OT, and BYU beats Florida in 2OT.

As Corrine Brown might say, Go Gata 

[charlestondxman]

Some good crowds in Jacksonville, as we got CBS's #1 announcing crew, Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg. Wisconsin defeated Wofford 53-49, and Cornell defeated Temple in a big upset, 78-65.

[BridgeTroll]

Sorry tufsu... Cornell looked pretty good... Badgers did not but pulled it out.  Cornell v Badgers should be a good matchup...

[brainstormer]

Yes BT, Go Badgers!!!  I'm so glad our home state is well represented on here.

[BridgeTroll]

  The Grateful Red is everywhere...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Red

The Grateful Red is the student section of the Kohl Center, home of the University of Wisconsinâ€"Madison's NCAA men's basketball team. As a division of the Badger Student Fan Club, it cheers on the Badgers from behind the basket at the Kohl Center. The name is a take-off of the rock group, the Grateful Dead, and members wear tie-dyed t-shirts as their pseudo-uniforms. The Detroit News ranked the section the #1 college basketball student section in February 2007.[1] The section was known as "Mr. Bennett's Neighborhood" for former coach Dick Bennett and debuted as the "grateful red" in 2002.[2]


View from the Grateful Red student sectionThe Grateful Red holds 2,100 students and extends from the floor to the roof of the Kohl Center, a span of three decks. Under current coach Bo Ryan, the men's basketball team achieved a record of 133â€"10 at home and held a 24-game home winning streak through the 2006-07 season.

[tufsu1]

Sorry tufsu... Cornell looked pretty good... Badgers did not but pulled it out.  Cornell v Badgers should be a good matchup...

yep..definitely a rough day for my teams (although I kind of expected FSU to lose)...Cornell did look very good and should give Wisconsin quite a game.

[reednavy]

Finished middle of the pack it appears. We have a great location, good venue, but teams sent here definetly had a role.

As a side, with OKC basically smack in the middle of the nation, that really helped them out.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=153651#comments

[tufsu1]

also keep in mind that most of the host arenas were larger than ours...so it is not an apples to apples comparison...then again, we didn't sell out any of the sessions completely.

[fsujax]

Our arena only holds somewhere around 13,000 for basketball games.

[Tripoli1711]

Arena size is missing the point-  It didn't sell out even with the smaller arena.

The fact is, Jacksonville is a bad town for buying tickets to sporting events.  Duke travels well.  Wisconsin travels very well.  Some of these other sites had less of a traveling fan base than Jacksonville did, and they still sold 18k tickets apiece. 

I'm glad the city didn't embarrass itself and attendance wasn't bad, but its also pretty pathetic that we couldn't get 13,000 people to show up and watch.

[tufsu1]

huh....did you even go to any of the games?

I did and enjoyed a great atmosphere....and oh btw, I've been to past NCAA tourney games in College Park, MD (Washington D.C.), Meadowlands (New York), Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Tallahassee, and Orlando....Jax. compared quite favorably.