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Friday, March 16, 2007
It is a much busier atmosphere at Nationwide Arena today, even though Columbus iun general can barely muster a yawn about the games here.
Of course with Ohio State a No. 1 seed and playing out of town this weekend, it is no surprise the locals attention might be elsewhere. The eight-team field assembled here also has not particular allure with the locals.
One writer in a local paper suggested the best reason local fans would have for coming out to the games would be to see the Ohio State floor, on loan from OSU's Schottenstein Center, which is being used for the games.
The word on the street, where scalpers are actually licensed, is demand has not been strong. A pair of lower level seats for tonight's seassion in Section 109 -- behind one of the baskets -- can be had for $75 each. Face value is $61. If he still has them tonight, they will be even cheaper.
It is tough to rectify that with the parking situation at Nationwide Arena, where a perfect storm of an auto show at the nearby convention center, the games at Nationwide and the fact that much of the Arena District parking is dual purpose -- monthly commuters by day, event by night -- has caused a perfect parking storm that threatened to force us to park about a mile from the arena.
The good news is, this is Columbus; it only took a fiver to convince an attendant that he ought to go ahead and let me take one of the spots he was supposed to be saving for his regular monthly parkers. Add the $15 regular parking fee (I would not be left out without a ticket to give to the attendant tonight), and the $20 total is still not bad for a full day across the street from the building.
If you are driving in this evening, not to worry. The commuters will be gone after 5, freeing up a lot more spaces for tonight's session.
The crowd for today's first session is close to full. Tennessee in particular appears to have traveled well.
No way of telling what kind of turnout Holy Cross will have tonight. The only signs of purple on the way in to Nationwide Arena this afternoon were the purple and gold clad Albany fans, who took their Wahoo whooping very well.
They were drowning the sorrows in a bar attached to the arena, many of them in an outdoor tent erected to handle the overflow. Their presence was detected from outside when a pair of U of A fans walked by singing their UA, UA, UA, UA to the tune of that soccer Ole song (or the Jose, Jose version they sang the last year or two at Lehigh). The occupants of the tent heard the pair's song and responded in kind.
Of course with Ohio State a No. 1 seed and playing out of town this weekend, it is no surprise the locals attention might be elsewhere. The eight-team field assembled here also has not particular allure with the locals.
One writer in a local paper suggested the best reason local fans would have for coming out to the games would be to see the Ohio State floor, on loan from OSU's Schottenstein Center, which is being used for the games.
The word on the street, where scalpers are actually licensed, is demand has not been strong. A pair of lower level seats for tonight's seassion in Section 109 -- behind one of the baskets -- can be had for $75 each. Face value is $61. If he still has them tonight, they will be even cheaper.
It is tough to rectify that with the parking situation at Nationwide Arena, where a perfect storm of an auto show at the nearby convention center, the games at Nationwide and the fact that much of the Arena District parking is dual purpose -- monthly commuters by day, event by night -- has caused a perfect parking storm that threatened to force us to park about a mile from the arena.
The good news is, this is Columbus; it only took a fiver to convince an attendant that he ought to go ahead and let me take one of the spots he was supposed to be saving for his regular monthly parkers. Add the $15 regular parking fee (I would not be left out without a ticket to give to the attendant tonight), and the $20 total is still not bad for a full day across the street from the building.
If you are driving in this evening, not to worry. The commuters will be gone after 5, freeing up a lot more spaces for tonight's session.
The crowd for today's first session is close to full. Tennessee in particular appears to have traveled well.
No way of telling what kind of turnout Holy Cross will have tonight. The only signs of purple on the way in to Nationwide Arena this afternoon were the purple and gold clad Albany fans, who took their Wahoo whooping very well.
They were drowning the sorrows in a bar attached to the arena, many of them in an outdoor tent erected to handle the overflow. Their presence was detected from outside when a pair of U of A fans walked by singing their UA, UA, UA, UA to the tune of that soccer Ole song (or the Jose, Jose version they sang the last year or two at Lehigh). The occupants of the tent heard the pair's song and responded in kind.
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