penn nation
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 10:04 AM - Post#251036
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Instead, they got Penn-St. John's in an empty arena.
That's what they get for making a tourney.
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LyleGold
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 10:07 AM - Post#251038
In response to penn nation
Well, as Stu Suss pointed out, that does suggest what an ILT at a neutral arena like Bridgeport might look like.
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 10:15 AM - Post#251039
In response to LyleGold
Watching those Horizon League semis last night was painful. NO-ONE is there in a stadium that seats 20,000. The front row seats on the end lines were unoccupied.
Bridgeport would be somewhat different, I think, if only because IL fans in metro NYC and parts north could easily get to/from the game and sleep in their own beds.
Edited by penn nation on 03-06-18 10:15 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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Chip Bayers
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Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 11:46 AM - Post#251052
In response to penn nation
14,943 empties to be exact.
Must have hired the bad DJ again.
Unfortunately we can never reach that number at Webster, since it only seats 9000 for basketball.
Those of us who were among the 1672 who attended the Penn-Fairfield game in November can attest to its soullessness and echoey acoustics when it’s mostly empty though.
Also to how the 20 or so students in attendance leapt to their feet and danced with abandon when the DJ pumped a muddy version of an ancient Bon Jovi epic through the underpowered arena PA speakers.
(This is the great joke of the DJ debate of course: oldies which were heard first on AOR radio in the youth of the Gen-X-and-older crowd make up about 90% of the playlists you hear during game timeouts. The only time you can consistently get anything close to contemporary is when they play hip hop off some player’s Spotify playlist during the early shootarounds, if you’re one of the five people in the stands 40-60 minutes before tip-off.)
Edited by Chip Bayers on 03-06-18 11:48 AM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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palestra38
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 11:49 AM - Post#251053
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..or when the dance teams come out to strut their stuff
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10Q
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Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 12:34 PM - Post#251060
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The Palestra is going to ROCK Sunday afternoon.
This will be third venture to the Cathedral this year. I witnessed quadruple overtime and cheesesteaks. The Trifecta will be a Quaker net cutting ceremony.
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LyleGold
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 01:24 PM - Post#251076
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This will be third venture to the Cathedral this year. I witnessed quadruple overtime and cheesesteaks. The Trifecta will be a Quaker net cutting ceremony.
But the 4OT snoozefest was at Monmouth. Which cathedral did you have in mind?
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 01:30 PM - Post#251077
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Instead, they got Penn-St. John's in an empty arena.
One of the best weekends of my life. I missed Raleigh, but SO many stories from the Greensboro trip. From the folks selling Penn State merch outside and buying tickets for $5 each, to sitting wherever I wanted in a 20,000 seat arena- not to mention all the friends I had who were there from the Penn and Syracuse contingents. The best part (aside from the games) were the parties on the NC State campus where we were the guests of honor as soon as they found out we were from the school that knocked out Carolina.
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 01:46 PM - Post#251083
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Raleigh story: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/12/archives/s t-joh...
Greensboro story: https://www.si.com/vault/1979/03/26/1067 73780/for-...
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penn nation
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 01:58 PM - Post#251085
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Louie was rather and sadly prescient:
"They'd better be smart," said St. John's Coach Lou Carnesecca. "Someday they'll be controlling our country."
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10Q
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 02:35 PM - Post#251091
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Oops. I meant the Lasalle game. Seemed like 4 OT's at the time.
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 02:36 PM - Post#251092
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Pale and Plump!
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LyleGold
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 02:53 PM - Post#251094
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The best part (aside from the games) were the parties on the NC State campus where we were the guests of honor as soon as they found out we were from the school that knocked out Carolina.
Interesting. The week before in Raleigh, the day between games was a beautiful, sunny Saturday. Hundreds of Penn students descended on the Duke campus. Duke must have been on break (our Spring Break was sandwiched between the two NCAA weekends) because I don't remember a lot of students around. The Days Inn in Durham was party central. I remember people jumping off of balconies into the swimming pool.
Because of the weird 40 team bracket that year, Duke and Carolina didn't have to play on Friday night. They were waiting for the winners of St. John's-Temple and Penn-Iona. After Temple was upset by the Johnnies, Owls fans chanted,"Big 5, Big 5," while the Quakers warmed up for the nightcap.
Can you imagine rival City Series fans feeling any sense of camaraderie these days?
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Re: Just how good has this season been for the men and the women 03-06-18 02:55 PM - Post#251095
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Because of the weird 40 team bracket that year, Duke and Carolina didn't have to play on Friday night.
Maybe the ILT should expand to 40 teams. 10Q and I wouldn't mind being able to watch a few more contests.
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03-06-18 07:01 PM - Post#251127
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That's in Raleigh
You got something better to do in NC on a Saturday while waiting for Penn to play the winner of the 7/10 game?
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palestra38
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03-06-18 07:41 PM - Post#251130
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Asheville is an hour closer to Charlotte than Raleigh. I would go there long before driving 6 hours RT to see the Flyers play a meaningless regular season game.
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