League A10 Basketball: news and discourse around the league

share the ball said:
nothing in DC will improve our a10 brand - they got two a10 teams in the area that have NO interest from the larger market owned by the NBA< NHL,NFL MLB , Big East and big 10

I can fully appreciate your point about so much more to do but as a basketball fan I never go to a tournament to go see a museum etc (maybe a good restaurant of which Richmond area has some fine ones (not as many as DC though) but I recognize some fans only go to see their team play and then sightsee - I get that and richmond doesn't have the range of sights that NYC nor DC have

honestly (IMO) the market for a10 basketball tournament is the 15 teams in the tournament's fans and whomever the corporate sponsors give all those tickets to - tourney has been played at Barclays with a 5 borough population of 8-9 million and the attendance at Barclays is anemic compared to that population density not even including the 2 million just across the hudson in NJ within 30 minutes by subway

Richmond area attendance if a10 here would be comparable IMO to what they see at Barclays with probably 1/10th the population in our area

Richmond area can handle the demand for hotels from teams and fans - and what is best for the brand is having the two best teams playing Sunday for the championship in one of the two teams backyard - not a Duquense vs VCU in Barclays

ACC , Big East and so on can fill Barclays and MSG most every session - not really a good comparison when we talk about brands to compare the a10 tourney to any of the P6,/5 tournaments

last time in DC the avg attendance for the a-10 semifinals and finals session was 8,000 (capacity 20,300) - avg attendance for a Wizards game in 22-23 was 17,000 (41 games) (a-10 barclays attendance recently was a little less than DC tournament for the semi and final sessions)

go rams

ps I will attend in DC - got lots of family in suburbs
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As a Wizards fan, there are 17000 of us?
 
share the ball said:
the A10 tourney should be where the host has the best fans to buy tickets
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That would mean the A-10 tournament should make the Flyers home court UD Arena its permanent host every year. There is no other member in the league which comes close to matching Dayton for support. Flyers fans already buy 13k tickets for every game in Dayton and the two tournaments held there in the past drew very well as do the NCAA play-in rounds.
 
rammad90 said:
Richmond is too small market. Good for VCU but not so much for the brand. Even the ACC left Greensboro a place that practically owned that tournament.

I like DC as the tournament spot as it is accessible for the philly teams, and a bit more affordable to all than NYC. I have lived in both cities (yep even Brooklyn, (actually about two blocks from Barclays before it was built). The area adds flair and you can get some culture Richmond doesnt provide.
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I bet ya that when Green City is built the A10 tournament will play there. Right now they are working on infrastructure for the project and they should break ground with a shovel ceremony in 2025. I know they have already been talking to Bernie about it.
 
AlienAiden said:
I bet ya that when Green City is built the A10 tournament will play there. Right now they are working on infrastructure for the project and they should break ground with a shovel ceremony in 2025. I know they have already been talking to Bernie about it.
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6,000 in another city VS. 12,000 to 17,000 in Green City. I think Bernie will take that.
 
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