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Username Post: 2018 Ivy Tournament Back At The Palestra
dperry 
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dperry
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Reg: 11-24-04
12-21-17 11:16 PM - Post#241003    
    In response to TheLine

  • TheLine Said:

Reality is that Mohegan Sun is more convenient to only 4 of the schools (Columbia and I think also Cornell is closer to Philly).




Columbia and Cornell are indeed closer to Philly (though Columbia isn't much closer.) One should also keep in mind that large parts of the fan bases don't actually live in the colleges' home towns. For anyone living in North Jersey or even Brooklyn, Philly is much more convenient; even for Westchester, Philly isn't that much worse, and, of course for anyone south of Philly (Baltimore, Washington, etc.), it's no contest. Flying in from farther away? The Palestra is a 20-minute train ride from a really big airport; Mohegan Sun is an hour drive from two smaller fields (Bradley and T. F. Green).

I'd also be more persuaded that being closer to other schools would make a difference if their fans could actually drag their butts across campus for their own home games. To give the most obvious example, Harvard has gone from planning a new arena with 800 more seats than Lavietes to taking 560 seats out of Lavietes They only sold out four of the seven Ivy games last year. Yale has only managed to sell all of their 2,532 chairs twice in the last two years (you know who that was for.) Six out of the eight Ivy teams lost attendance in the league season last year. The folks on the Voy board complain all the time about how football attendance is collapsing, and many advocate various measures to improve the quality of play, including scheduling higher-echelon teams. Well, Ivy hoops is doing just that, and attendance is still falling. This points to a lot bigger problem than where we're going to have the tournament.
David Perry
Penn '92
"Hail, Alma Mater/Thy sons cheer thee now
To thee, Pennsylvania/All rivals must bow!!!"

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