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From Stadium Journey. http://www.stadiumjourney.com/news/03-2 ... kings-2014

A few head-scratchers. I have to say, we didn't come out great (other than Creighton). Still, any rankings that put SIU (18) ahead of all but one of our arenas is a little suspect.

4. Century Link (Creighton)
27. Hinkle Fieldhouse (Butler)
33. Bradley Center (Marquette)
56. Cintas Center (Xavier)
62. The Pavillion (Villanova)
100. Verizon Center (Georgetown)
221. Carneseca (St. John's)
224. Prudential Center (Seton Hall)
255. Dunkin Donuts Center (Providence)
337. Allstate Arena (DePaul)

What do you think? (Yep, it's still the off-season)

marquette wrote:From Stadium Journey. http://www.stadiumjourney.com/news/03-2 ... kings-2014

A few head-scratchers. I have to say, we didn't come out great (other than Creighton). Still, any rankings that put SIU (18) ahead of all but one of our arenas is a little suspect.

4. Century Link (Creighton)
27. Hinkle Fieldhouse (Butler)
33. Bradley Center (Marquette)
56. Cintas Center (Xavier)
62. The Pavillion (Villanova)
100. Verizon Center (Georgetown)
221. Carneseca (St. John's)
224. Prudential Center (Seton Hall)
337. Allstate Arena (DePaul)

What do you think? (Yep, it's still the off-season)

Fairly accurate order of our conference teams. Would switch Prudential and Carneseca and put the Dunk about Prudential.

hoyahooligan wrote:

marquette wrote:From Stadium Journey. http://www.stadiumjourney.com/news/03-2 ... kings-2014

A few head-scratchers. I have to say, we didn't come out great (other than Creighton). Still, any rankings that put SIU (18) ahead of all but one of our arenas is a little suspect.

4. Century Link (Creighton)
27. Hinkle Fieldhouse (Butler)
33. Bradley Center (Marquette)
56. Cintas Center (Xavier)
62. The Pavillion (Villanova)
100. Verizon Center (Georgetown)
221. Carneseca (St. John's)
224. Prudential Center (Seton Hall)
337. Allstate Arena (DePaul)

What do you think? (Yep, it's still the off-season)

Fairly accurate order of our conference teams. Would switch Prudential and Carneseca and put the Dunk about Prudential.

Agreed about the conference rankings, but, as an example, they had University of North Carolina Charlotte's arena ranked ahead of the Cintas Center and Cameron indoor arena. That is nuts.

I am a homer, but its hard for me to imagine 55 schools with a better energy than Cintas

I couldn't find the Dunk...

Not sure i agree with the rankings, but that website is really cool. The guy really enjoys checking out all the arenas and trying to get to know the schools and neighborhoods. His writeup about the RAC at Rutgers is true, feeling like Soviet Russia in a giant open area. Had them in the 300's. The RAC for the worse was so unlike the other Big East arenas when they joined. Finding the place is a nightmare too.

Poor Lowell is ranked in the 300's too.

Kind of BS how we get Carnesseca but not MSG where we actually play most of our games. We play our preseason chump opponents and DePaul at Carnesecca. Our conference schedule and our big time OOC games are at MSG. This is not in any way accurate.

billyjack wrote:I couldn't find the Dunk...

Not sure i agree with the rankings, but that website is really cool. The guy really enjoys checking out all the arenas and trying to get to know the schools and neighborhoods. His writeup about the RAC at Rutgers is true, feeling like Soviet Russia in a giant open area. Had them in the 300's. The RAC for the worse was so unlike the other Big East arenas when they joined. Finding the place is a nightmare too.

Poor Lowell is ranked in the 300's too.

Whoops, sorry. I must have accidentally scrolled past it. My bad. It is 255. I'll edit the OP to reflect.

As a DePaul University alumnus, I agree with Allstate Arena being last. DePaul will have a new 10,000 seat arena on the Near South Side of Chicago by February 2017.

I thought this was really cool, but was disappointed by the lack of a review on the Prudential Center. All they said is that it's a professional arena located close to campus.

My opinion on it is that the building itself is as nice as any other (which comes with being a relatively new pro arena) but it loses major points for atmosphere. It was clearly built with hockey in mind so some sight lines aren't ideal for basketball and sometimes the don't even take the boards down (when Devils play the same day). The atmosphere problems stem largely from having a mediocre team and being located off campus. When the place fills up it's a great place to be, but the team needs to give the students in particular a reason to travel into Newark.

Xudash wrote:

hoyahooligan wrote:

marquette wrote:From Stadium Journey. http://www.stadiumjourney.com/news/03-2 ... kings-2014

A few head-scratchers. I have to say, we didn't come out great (other than Creighton). Still, any rankings that put SIU (18) ahead of all but one of our arenas is a little suspect.

4. Century Link (Creighton)
27. Hinkle Fieldhouse (Butler)
33. Bradley Center (Marquette)
56. Cintas Center (Xavier)
62. The Pavillion (Villanova)
100. Verizon Center (Georgetown)
221. Carneseca (St. John's)
224. Prudential Center (Seton Hall)
337. Allstate Arena (DePaul)

What do you think? (Yep, it's still the off-season)

Fairly accurate order of our conference teams. Would switch Prudential and Carneseca and put the Dunk about Prudential.

Agreed about the conference rankings, but, as an example, they had University of North Carolina Charlotte's arena ranked ahead of the Cintas Center and Cameron indoor arena. That is nuts.

I live in Charlotte and have been to both Cameron and UNCC's arenas...its really no contest that Cameron is better.