Tiger84
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03-12-17 09:18 AM - Post#226461
In response to Go Green
Lot of folks left to grab bite to eat or check into hotels, the next came back for 2nd half of H-Y and the 2nd women's game.
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Go Green
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03-12-17 11:24 AM - Post#226474
In response to Tiger84
Lot of folks left to grab bite to eat or check into hotels, the next came back for 2nd half of H-Y and the 2nd women's game.
That would account for the discrepancies between what TV viewers saw and what people who say that they were there are describing.
It looked like great TV. Maybe the EPSN guys are used to placing the camera where there are fans.
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HARVARDDADGRAD
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Publicity Watch 03-12-17 11:46 AM - Post#226479
In response to Go Green
The place was EMPTY for the second women's game. I was there.
H-Y seemed rather empty as well. 2,500 (at best) in an arena that seats 3.5X that felt very strange. The arena was empty compared to just 7 nights before - I was at both games. It's one thing to play in a vacuous MSG or Prudential Center, somewhat anticlimactic to play in the Palestra without even the attendance of a regular season game.
Edited by HARVARDDADGRAD on 03-12-17 11:47 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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Go Green
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Re: Publicity Watch 03-12-17 11:50 AM - Post#226481
In response to HARVARDDADGRAD
The place was EMPTY for the second women's game. I was there.
H-Y seemed rather empty as well. 2,500 (at best) in an arena that seats 3.5X that felt very strange. The arena was empty compared to just 7 nights before - I was at both games. It's one thing to play in a vacuous MSG or Prudential Center, somewhat anticlimactic to play in the Palestra without even the attendance of a regular season game.
Friend, I believe you.
But if it makes you feel better, the H-Y game didn't come across as "empty" on television.
Going to tune in soon for the championship.
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Chip Bayers
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03-12-17 12:03 PM - Post#226482
In response to Go Green
There's nobody there.
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Chip Bayers
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03-12-17 12:36 PM - Post#226499
In response to Chip Bayers
Who compiled an all-time All-Ivy First Team that had Jeremy Lin on it? Bradley, McMillian, Allen, Maloney, and ... Lin?
Princeton and Penn alone have a good 6-7 guys each who were better Ivy players than Lin in their careers. Even Harvard in its decrepit basketball history prior to the last ten years had at least a couple.
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Go Green
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03-12-17 01:30 PM - Post#226520
In response to Chip Bayers
Who compiled an all-time All-Ivy First Team that had Jeremy Lin on it? Bradley, McMillian, Allen, Maloney, and ... Lin?
I was thinking the same thing.
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section110
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Re: Publicity Watch 03-13-17 09:22 AM - Post#226706
In response to Go Green
I assume it was ESPN who had the security guards waving to us in the upper level to move down to the chair backs lower level early in the women's final and that's why the place looked more filled on TV than it was & looked inside the Palestra.
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Go Green
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Re: Publicity Watch 03-13-17 09:38 AM - Post#226710
In response to section110
I assume it was ESPN who had the security guards waving to us in the upper level to move down to the chair backs lower level early in the women's final and that's why the place looked more filled on TV than it was & looked inside the Palestra.
Always a small victory when you buy rafter seats for a game, and the guards tell you to move down to the lower bowl so it looks better for television.
That's happened to me twice at NBA games.
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penn nation
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Re: Publicity Watch 03-13-17 10:08 AM - Post#226713
In response to Go Green
Back in the early 1980s in the old Chicago Stadium we were at the season finale for the non-playoff bound Bulls. We were way up in the balcony and the guards had us come down--we had front row seats on the baseline. Later got an autograph from a sweat-drenched Herb Williams (then a Pacer) as he was leaving the court.
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