Empty seats at NCAAs.

[Max Power]

I'm just the opposite. I go BECAUSE of the excitement, regardless of whether I have a dog in the fight. That mindset has put me in the stands for the following:

1998 - Bryce Drew buzzer beater for Valparaiso beats Ole Miss.
1998 - Rhode Island beats Kansas.
2005 - Bucknell beats Kansas.
2010 - Jimmer Fredette goes off for BYU in double OT win over Florida.
2010 - Northern Iowa beats Kansas.

I do enjoy the atmosphere, but when you have 2-3 buzzer beaters at a time i would much rather be at home and see all of them live. Just my personal preference.

 

[Big Old Booger]

Only "local" teams in OKC in 1998 were Kansas and TCU, which was the Lee Nailon team for Billy Tubbs that went undefeated in the WAC.


That was 1994, the year Tulsa beat O-State in the round of 32. Arkansas went on to win the national championship. Regional Finals were in Dallas, if memory serves....


I will also say that I'm not a real big fan of the pod system. I enjoyed seeing all eight teams coming to town as part of the same regional, and knowing that the two teams who survived would be playing against each other in the Regional Finals the next week. 1998 was wild because the two teams to come out of OKC were Valpo and Rhode Island, and they played a classic the next weekend in St. Louis.

I was able to find this on wikipedia. It also said the coach of NC A&T was Jeff Capel II. Who knew?

 

[oSuJeff97]

That was 1994, the year Tulsa beat O-State in the round of 32. Arkansas went on to win the national championship. Regional Finals were in Dallas, if memory serves....

Correct.

That Arkansas team was the 1-seed. OSU was the 4-seed and Tulsa was the 12.

Arkansas beat Tulsa in Dallas in the regional semi-finals on their way to the national title.

(Then they went to the finals again in 1995 and lost to the same UCLA team that beat OSU in the Final Four.)

 

[stoops4pres]

2003: OKC had a top 10/15 OU team (right? or do I have the year wrong?

Yeah you were right... OU was a 1 seed that year in OKC. Played 16-seed South Carolina State and 8-seed Cal-Berkley there.

 

[thegreyghost]

Wait till they get to New Orleans this weekend, hopefully those fools didn't schedule this for the superdome.

 

[soonertravis]

The first time I went to the NCAAs was in 1998 in Oklahoma City. The upper bowl of the Myriad was full for every game because those fans were going to come to the games regardless of who was playing. The lower bowl would be shifty because you'd have fans from each school coming and going with the times of their games.

This absolutely correct. The seats between the baselines down low are sold to the teams. So if their tema isn't playing many fans are not present to watch the game. We bought NCAAs the first day they were on sale in Tulsa and the only lower level seats were behind the hoop.

 

[soonertravis]

Correct.

That Arkansas team was the 1-seed. OSU was the 4-seed and Tulsa was the 12.

Arkansas beat Tulsa in Dallas in the regional semi-finals on their way to the national title.

(Then they went to the finals again in 1995 and lost to the same UCLA team that beat OSU in the Final Four.)

And UCLA lost to Tulsa in the first round in 1994, before TU eliminated OSU.