Game 35, 2011-12: @ Seton Hall (NIT 2nd Round)

Ajn3166 · Post by **Ajn3166** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:56 pm

Ticket info: http://www.shupirates.com/ViewArticle.d ... =205397177

According to this, UMass fans may have a real hard time getting a ticket...

krkess · Post by **krkess** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:58 pm

I have to believe there has to be several tickets made available for the visiting team, at least that was the way it was before the NCAA started running the NIT.

Post by **MikeUMA** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:59 pm

From what Josh Maurer just said, sounds like we won't know day/time of UMass @ Seton Hall until late tomorrow night, at the earliest.

DeefNasty · Post by **DeefNasty** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:04 pm

That's the ticket policy?!? SHall students/staff only??

This is a D1 school? Wow

OutlawPete · Post by **OutlawPete** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:06 pm

That arena is pathetic. I thought (or at least guessed) Seton Hall had a nice big arena. I know they play in Newark sometimes, but I thought they had their own. I might be there if it's Saturday of Sunday and if I can get a ticket.

Ajn3166 · Post by **Ajn3166** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:10 pm

Seton Hall plays most, if not all, of their games at the Prudential Center. However, a few years ago they got 1,500 for a NIT game there and decided to move all future NIT games to their on campus gym.

Chris20 · Post by **Chris20** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:19 pm

I'll go if the day is right and we can get tix

Wardy · Post by **Wardy** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:24 pm

For years Seton Hall split games between Walsh Gym and the Meadowlands similar to St. John's splitting between Carnesecca Hall and MSG. All women's games and early season men's games against the St. Peter's, Fairleigh Dickenson's, and Monmouth's of the world were at Walsh Gym. All other men's games were at the Meadowlands which is 15 miles away from campus.

Since the program's fall-off after the mid 1990's attendence dropped and with the new Prudential Center in Newark they decided to move their games closer to campus there curtaining off the upper tier.

Guessing that having the game on campus allows Seton Hall not to have to pay rent and a higher overhead with the Pru Center. Georgetown played NIT games at their small on-campus gym a few years ago instead of the Verizon Center.

LS71 · Post by **LS71** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:24 pm

if the game is Sunday AND it's at the Prudential Center, I'm there.

Amtrak from New Haven and a short walk from Newark Penn Station.

DrG · Post by **DrG** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:27 pm

I grew up in NJ and used to go to HS tournament games at Archbishop Walsh Gym, which is a tiny bandbox that makes the Cage look spacious. It would be an embarrassment for the NIT if they played a second round game there.

Marty Peretz · Post by **Marty Peretz** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:31 pm

Yea, but it'd be more of an embarrassment if they played it at a 20,000 seat arena and 3500 showed up...

DrG · Post by **DrG** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:33 pm

So you're saying we should play an NIT game in the Cage?

runner_bric · Post by **runner_bric** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:36 pm

DrG wrote:So you're saying we should play an NIT game in the Cage?

If the game happens over spring break... why not?

LS71 · Post by **LS71** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:03 pm

Shorter ride home for me...

DrG · Post by **DrG** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:39 pm

Yeah, by a twentieth of a mile.