The Patriot League Tournament saves the Worcester Community
Mar 13, 2019 9:57:00 GMT -5
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 13, 2019 9:57:00 GMT -5
Their official attendance was 2890. No idea if they have the number of no-shows that the MAAC has for their final.
The Patriot League final the last two years has averaged well over 4000, and was limited by the fire marshal.
I know that playing in the PL is the Holy Grail for Bucknell but my point is that arena’s will pay $300,000 plus expenses to the MAAC to host it’s post season single site tournament. Last year the tournament resulted in an $100,000 loss to our arena, this year, the arena broke even. The economic spin off of the tournament to the community is calculated at &2.97million.
Here is the post mortun on this year’s event: MAAC basketball tournament sees small rise in attendance www.timesunion.com/sports/article/MAAC-basketball-tournament-sees-small-rise-in-13682615.php?t=96a94d12e1
I don’t know what guarantee Atlantic City made to win hosting rights next year’s tournament. It will come out presumably.
My point is that no one is interested to ponying up any money to host the PL tournament. Thus a single site event is not in the cards. That’s a function of the lack of recognition and/or interest in the PL
For small leagues like the PL I would favor the Ivy model where the league regular season gets the bid without any post season tournament. It would prevent the Holy Cross run of a few years ago which was inherently unfair to the league.
Just my view.
2. The Ivy League has had a 4 team post season tournament since 2017.