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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:56 pm
by Ajn3166
Ticket info:
http://www.shupirates.com/ViewArticle.d ... =205397177
According to this, UMass fans may have a real hard time getting a ticket...
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:58 pm
by krkess
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:59 pm
by MikeUMA
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:04 pm
by DeefNasty
That's the ticket policy?!? SHall students/staff only??
This is a D1 school? Wow
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:06 pm
by OutlawPete
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:10 pm
by Ajn3166
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:19 pm
by Chris20
I'll go if the day is right and we can get tix
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:24 pm
by Wardy
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:24 pm
by LS71
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:27 pm
by DrG
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:31 pm
by Marty Peretz
Yea, but it'd be more of an embarrassment if they played it at a 20,000 seat arena and 3500 showed up...
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:33 pm
by DrG
So you're saying we should play an NIT game in the Cage?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:36 pm
by runner_bric
DrG wrote:So you're saying we should play an NIT game in the Cage?
If the game happens over spring break... why not?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:03 pm
by LS71
Shorter ride home for me...
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:39 pm
by DrG
Yeah, by a twentieth of a mile.
