Plenty of venues

Plenty of venues
by Kayo (2020-11-16 13:03:13)

In reply to: NCAA is looking to move men's hoops tourney locations posted by thecontrarian

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Lucas Oil Stadium, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Hinkle Fieldhouse (Butler, 9100 seats), and Indiana Farmers Coliseum (IUPUI, 6500 seats). Bloomington (IU) isn't much more than an hour away. Add another 15-20 minutes to the ride for Terre Haute and Indiana State.

Seating capacity won't matter if attendance is limited to families and AD staff, and it doesn't matter much for many of the early round games because they don't draw much in the best of times.

If the NCAA wants to pick a single city, Indianapolis is a good choice.

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Student rec centers at IUPUI, Butler, and Marian - fontoknow 2020-11-16 17:11:33
- UIndy and Marian are definitely in the consideration mix * - CrazyMary 2020-11-16 18:41:41
- Those can be practice venues - Kayo 2020-11-16 18:16:14
  - High schools gyms are iffy - SB Jimbo 2020-11-16 19:53:54
  - Southport could host games... - iudomer 2020-11-16 19:13:44
Lifetime Fitness on 86th Street needs some games... - iudomer 2020-11-16 16:32:17
- Right down the street ---- - NDBob 2020-11-17 08:43:24
Also - SB Jimbo 2020-11-16 15:40:22
Lucas Oil could easily host 2, maybe 3, games simultaneously * - Tex Francisco 2020-11-16 15:16:38
- I don't think people would be happy if their bracket got - Carlos Huerta 2020-11-16 16:09:57
Interesting fact - there are 33,000 hotel rooms in the Indy - akaRonMexico 2020-11-16 14:51:38
- i may be mistaken... - joeyg 2020-11-17 01:20:18
- Indianapolis has the 500 every year - jclay 2020-11-16 21:07:12
- And importantly, a large % of the rooms are downtown - ribs 2020-11-16 14:55:07
  - Why would they want to have more than the traditional four - Carlos Huerta 2020-11-16 16:07:25
    - Who knows, they might not. - ribs 2020-11-16 16:10:41