Creighton tickets sold out!

[notkirkcameron]

In the past 20 years...

Conference championships
Creighton 4, Seton Hall 0

Conference Tournament Titles
Creighton 8, Seton Hall 0

NCAA Tournament appearances
Creighton 9, Seton Hall 4 (None since 2006)

20-win Seasons
Creighton 14,Seton Hall 3

Cumulative record
Creighton 416-208
Seton Hall 309-284

The answer may well be as simple as "Everybody loves a winner." It's really unique to get a lot of people to consistently support a consistent loser, and Seton Hall has not only not won anything, but they haven't even been close to winning anything in a long, long time. Tough sledding for a smaller private school to do that, especially in a crowded sports marketplace like New York.

Hell, Big East punching bag DePaul has won a conference title more recently than Seton Hall.

[Wizard of Westroads]

Andy Katz talks about CU tickets, along with good stuff on X and Butler.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketba ... n-big-east

[NovaCats11]

To my recollection, Seton Hall attendance has always been weak, through good times and bad.

See 2:07 of the video below for a glimpse of a Hall crowd (or lack thereof) circa '93 or '94, when they still had Carlesimo and were in the NCAAs every year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNs46gJULnc

[Jet915]

To my recollection, Seton Hall attendance has always been weak, through good times and bad.

See 2:07 of the video below for a glimpse of a Hall crowd (or lack thereof) circa '93 or '94, when they still had Carlesimo and were in the NCAAs every year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNs46gJULnc

That's pretty depressing if true especially considering they are a hop skip and a jump from MSG.

[Friarfan2]

We should all be selling out our alotments.

I understand some of the midwest schools having more trouble. I don't expect depaul to sell many tickets. Xavier travels well, marquette has always had a nice presence. It is great to see creighton embrace the event. I hope butler does the same.

St Johns and seton hall have no excuse to not sell out their alotment as well as help drive up the secondary market demand. No excuse.

I worry a bit about providence, but we have attended in good numbers whenm the team was good. The tim welsh years have really taken some steam out of the event. But I remember a couple real fun tourneys back in the 1990's. We have a strong enough new jersey/long island alumni base to make me think we will carry our load.

Villanova will sell tons of tickets. Their school is pretty much a wall street feeder school, they are only 90 minutes away, and they are good. Villanova was always up there with the top attendees throughout the years.

Georgetown should also sell out their tickets and then some. Again, huge nyc feeder school for jobs, great brand recognition. They were always just behind nova for msg presence, probably due to nova's closer proximity to nyc, but georgetown is a solid force.

As long as xavier, marquette and providence do their thing, and we get the big demand from the nova and georgetown crowd, and with creighton showing they care, and hopefully seton hall and st john's local fan base step up for the filler tickets, it doesn't matter if butler and depaul slack a little. Place only holds 20k fans, we should be able to pack it. Some sessions early will be thinner crowds (but I will be very disappointed if a johnnies or seton hall game has below 20k attendance), but overall the attendance should be fine and every session should be sold out.