I just scored some first round tickets in Boise

[RC Vikings]

I hope they send someone good.

[scottie]

I hope they send someone good.

I think I've mentioned this here before, but in high school me and some buddies attended Round 1 in Boise in 1992 and we were very happy with the teams we got:

Georgetown (Alonzo Mourning)
Florida St. (Sam Cassell, Charlie Ward, and Bobby Sura)
LSU (Shaq)
BYU
Indiana (Calbert Cheaney)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_NC...nt#West_region

[CardiacCoug]

Anybody else remember watching Patrick Ewing dominate in the Marriott Center during the 1982 NCAA Tourney?

My dad snuck me in without a ticket and I sat on the seat next to him. That was awesome seeing Ewing and that great Georgetown team dominate.

The only other NCAA games I went to were the opening round games in St. Louis in 2002. We watched 16 seed Holy Cross make a close game of it with Kansas. I love the first week of the NCAA Tournament. It's probably my favorite four days of sports each year.

[Indy Coug]

I've never been, but if BYU goes to Philly, I will attend my first tournament.

[SeattleUte]

I hope they send someone good.

"Scored." They are hot tickets, eh. How many days did you have to camp out in line to get those? LOL.

[RC Vikings]

Anybody else remember watching Patrick Ewing dominate in the Marriott Center during the 1982 NCAA Tourney?

My dad snuck me in without a ticket and I sat on the seat next to him. That was awesome seeing Ewing and that great Georgetown team dominate.

The only other NCAA games I went to were the opening round games in St. Louis in 2002. We watched 16 seed Holy Cross make a close game of it with Kansas. I love the first week of the NCAA Tournament. It's probably my favorite four days of sports each year.

I went to those games. I went with a kid whose Dad had a car dealership in Provo and he had some seats that were in the first row of the permanent seats. The next week SI had a picture of Ewing on their cover and I missed being in the picture by two seats. I'm still a little upset about it.

[RC Vikings]

"Scored." They are hot tickets, eh. How many days did you have to camp out in line to get those? LOL.

I hit up a trucking company we do a lot of business with and he got some for me.

[scottie]

Anybody else remember watching Patrick Ewing dominate in the Marriott Center during the 1982 NCAA Tourney?

My dad snuck me in without a ticket and I sat on the seat next to him. That was awesome seeing Ewing and that great Georgetown team dominate.

The only other NCAA games I went to were the opening round games in St. Louis in 2002. We watched 16 seed Holy Cross make a close game of it with Kansas. I love the first week of the NCAA Tournament. It's probably my favorite four days of sports each year.

Anyone know why the Marriott Center is no longer an NCAA tourney site?

[CardiacCoug]

Anyone know why the Marriott Center is no longer an NCAA tourney site?

Probably because of Prop 8.

Signed,
SeattleUte

[Jeff Lebowski]

Probably because of Prop 8.

Signed,
SeattleUte

No. They can't hold games at the very location of the infamous Mark E. Peterson talk until there is a formal apology.

[CardiacCoug]

No. They can't hold games at the very location of the infamous Mark E. Peterson talk until there is a formal apology.

Nice.

I think the real reason the Marriott Center isn't used for NCAA Tourney games has to do with the lack of hotel accomodations and excessive distance from a major airport.

The whole thing has just become a helluva lot bigger since the early 80s. Provo is just not set up conveniently enough for the television production crew and all the teams, players, fans, bands, cheerleaders, etc. to get to Provo and stay in Provo for a week.