Jim Delany's press release: "B1G Hockey Tournament attendance up 25% from last night."
I'm guessing he's too busy lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills and dumping out Tony Montana sized piles of coke on the desk to care about a few thousand hockey tickets here or there.
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It's tough to go up against the NCAA tournament. Many sports fans are trying to watch these basketball games, right now.
Though Michigan vs MSU will probably have a decent crowd.One of the 800 reasons that this thing shouldn't be in a 20K seat neutral site, off-campus venue.
Hopefully the B1G changes their format after the contract is up with the two cavernous pro buildings. If they desire a single elimination tourney so much, fine. Play the whole thing at a rotating campus site like every other B1G sport does.
The setup tonight and tomorrow night is the same as the CCHA tournament and there wasn't an issue. I would recommend either:
1. Neutral site location in an arena with max capacity of 10K to avoid embarrasing pics like the OP.
or
2. Rotate the semis/finals and divide the tickets among the final four teams. Just go back to determining the final four teams a week earlier as opposed to whatever that was they had last night. If the schools can't sell their portion by Wednesday 1PM, open it up to general public.
March 21st, 2015 at 12:27 PM ^
March 21st, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^
People keep mentioning the NCAA basketball tournament. My counter-argument would be that this is the same weekend that they used to have the CCHA tournament at Joe Louis Arena. When Michigan would play Michigan State at the CCHA tournament, you were pretty much guaranteed a 10,000+ crowd.
So it's not the NCAA basketball tournament first round (or second round, or whatever) keeping fans away. It's something else.
It's B1G hockey, no one gives a shit about it. I would love to have the CCHA back and the majority of Minnesota and Wisconsin fans would rather play be in the WCHA. They actually played for something meaningful like the MacNaughton Cup and not some generic B1G trophy.
MacNaughton Cup
B1G trophy
March 20th, 2015 at 11:23 PM ^
0-0 after 1.
All at Joe Louis Arena, all the first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament
1999 14,261
2000 13,177
2001 13,655
2002 14,079
2003 12,967
2004 11,651
2005 10,128
2006 10,478
2007 13,238
2008 9,471
2009 11,043
2010 9,831
2011 12,300
2012 7,823
2013 10,164
Attendance was clearly on a downtrend, but it wasn't trending to whatever we are getting now...
Having teams in close proximity was key. No one from Minnesota or Wisconsin will travel to Detroit for a conference hockey tournament. Notre Dame(plenty of ND fans in metro Detroit), Miami(passionate fan base) and all the Michigan schools was a different story. As a Michigan fan, I would never travel to the Xcel Center for the B1G tourney. I'm sure not many people from Columbus or State College are going to either.
Gophers looked really flat. Probably won't matter.
I know it's your thing to piss, moan and whine about anything and everything I post, but Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (insert failing thing here) is from the Santa Beebe twitter account that has been on fire lately after the Big 12 has taken a dump thus far in the NCAA Tournament.
Get your shit straight if you're going to piss and moan about my posts.
I knew my tweet game wasn't quite complete.
It's an open thread for the B1G Hockey Tournament. You're just bitching to bitch because I'm the OP and you don't like me.
And my grades are fucking fantastic right now. I'm doing better than I ever did in HS. And I will never be transferring to Michigan, because I don't want to be swimming in debt for the rest of my life. I'm fine with just being a fan. My dream has always been to move to Ann Arbor and get Football season tickets.
March 20th, 2015 at 10:10 PM ^
March 20th, 2015 at 10:00 PM ^
"Why don't you spend more time getting good grades at whatever school you are at and then you can transfer to michigan, which im sure is a dream of yours."
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT!!!! HE WENT THERE!!!
it must be the mom coming out in me but seriously unless you are also in high school..lay off!! Because I live out of state I come to MGOBLOG many times a day because I feel like they are my familyand share my passion. One of my favorite posters is WD..Thers's nothing wrong with trying to emulate Brian..you could do worse.
OSU has no fans and I doubt Minnesota fans care enough to make the trip to the D. OTOH, both Michigan and MSU need to win tonight to keep their season from ending. I bet it'll be lively
1-0 minnesota
I know the Joe will be gone soon, but come on... Yost has a better scoreboard.
Be nice if the Gophers played like this tomorrow (assuming we win tonight). Buckeyes are outplaying them, I'd say. Naturally, because it's playoff hockey, they're not winning.
2-0 minny.
3-0 minnesota on the ENG.
Gophers (other than Wilcox) weren't good. Too bad Wilcox was.
They can lose in the final and still make the NCAA tourney. Hopefully that means they won't be going all out tomorrow.
Minnesota might play hard but they won't be playing with desperation.
Attendance:
B1G WBB Tournament Second Round: 4,941
B1G Hockey Tournament First Round: 3,465
ATTENDANCE IS BAD
- Dave Brandon, probably
Woof. Attendance does not look good from the photo I just saw on twitter.
Let's Go Blue!
Beat STAEE!