whoa, an asian who can hold his own against blacks in basketball. that's crazy

12/9/2009 8:45:38 PM

12/9/2009 8:50:47 PM

BC loses to Harvard, again.

12/9/2009 9:08:37 PM

Damn, I think Nova has more offensive rebounds in this game then most teams will get in the entire month of December.

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM. Reason : hahaha and Jim Calhoun may have just taken the fastest time out ever. 33 secs in.]


[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM. Reason : Holy shit, Wall is single handedly embarassing UConn..Calhoun just took a 2nd time out at 16:25]

12/9/2009 9:22:38 PM

John Wall is a rape train with no brakes. It's not even funny how good he is.

12/9/2009 9:49:19 PM

Kentucky is flat out running UCONN out of the building right now

John Wall is killin them

12/9/2009 9:49:37 PM

Wall playing lights out against Uconn right now

12/9/2009 9:49:52 PM

because its already been said too many times:

john wall is killin em

12/9/2009 9:55:35 PM

UCONN ties it up at 16

this game is highly entertaining so far

12/9/2009 10:03:05 PM

why couldn't dick have died instead of jimmy V, i've had enough of that guy.

12/9/2009 10:14:32 PM

I'm not sure that I would go that far but I do wish it were possible to watch these games without commentary but still maintain the sound of the game.

12/9/2009 10:18:30 PM

you'd rather have jimmy V dead than dick vitale?

really?

12/9/2009 10:28:28 PM

The fuck? ESPN?

12/9/2009 10:31:07 PM

espn just pooped out...


and from getting "run out of the building"


uconn has since taken over something fierce.

12/9/2009 10:32:56 PM

yeah that 12-0 lead disappeared quick

12/9/2009 10:37:25 PM

hopefully this makes espn look bad and they wont move the ncaa tournament to their network

a guy can dream

12/9/2009 10:39:01 PM

Cousins is not emotionally mature enough to play well, right now. He's like Brandon Costner last year

12/9/2009 10:51:19 PM

Great, lost video but still have sound. Can't they do it the other way around. And how the hell do they fuck this up, they just showed a game in the same building with what I have to assume is the same equipment.

12/9/2009 10:51:56 PM

"scissored"

12/9/2009 10:56:30 PM

this christina aguilera commercial is maddening after the 1000th time. espn needs new commercials

12/9/2009 10:59:40 PM

does Vitale have a huge boner for Wall, or what???

12/9/2009 11:14:10 PM

love him or hate him.....


Dickie V rarely gives undo praise. Everything he says about Wall is true.

He just talks too fucking much.

12/9/2009 11:16:14 PM

he never gives "undo [sic]" fucking praise? get out of here with that shit. talking up players is all vitale does because he doesnt talk about the game.

he has a list of talking points he comes up with before the game and just hammers them the whole fucking time. any game he calls, he will hype up the best player on each team, regardless of whether the player is good in an absolute sense.

a broken clock is right twice a day. It just so happens that vitale is talking up wall AND wall is good.

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 11:20 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2009 11:19:36 PM

Dear refs, I realize you bet on UCONN, but my DVR respectively respectably disagrees with your assessment that the ball was out on Wall.

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM. Reason : lol wat?]

12/9/2009 11:19:53 PM

^^ are you joking... ?

Dick Vitale just somehow got lucky that John Wall is good at basketball?

are you dumb?

12/9/2009 11:28:49 PM

Wall did NOT have this jumper last year and in H.S. He must have taken 1500 jumpers a day this summer. Probably has a killer work ethic and you gotta give him props for that.

Cousins is a complete dick and a whiner. Glad we didn't get him even though he has very obvious talent. Too bad he doesn't give a shit for half of every game.

12/9/2009 11:34:49 PM

^^You did not comprehend what I wrote. I used a metaphor, so that probably threw off your incredible intellect.

Every game Vitale calls, he will hype a player, even if that player is bad. It just so happens that in this game, he is hyping a player who is actually good.

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 11:37 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2009 11:36:22 PM

^^ agree ^ yer dumb.


really "incredible intellect?" sigh...

12/9/2009 11:39:18 PM

Kentucky's half court offense is indescribably bad

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 11:43 PM. Reason : john wall is indescribably clutch]

12/9/2009 11:41:24 PM

^who cares. they just have to run that one play they just did. dribble across the face of wall's defender, pass back to a cutting wall and let him work

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 11:45 PM. Reason : ^^ill take that as your concession]

12/9/2009 11:43:30 PM

Wall is good

12/9/2009 11:44:09 PM

damn hes fast, strong... and finishes

12/9/2009 11:44:17 PM

John Wall is fucking incredible.

12/9/2009 11:45:01 PM

lmao @ demarcus cousins

talk shit now dude, because youre the reason this team is going to flame out in march

12/9/2009 11:48:13 PM

i came to say something about wall but apparently i don't have to.

12/9/2009 11:49:28 PM

Gotta grab that rebound and go up strong there if you're UConn on Kemba's miss.

Not terribly disappointed. Okwandu won't see the floor when Majok is eligible in a week... thank God.

12/9/2009 11:50:13 PM

sigh. john wall is good. oh what could have been.

12/9/2009 11:54:22 PM

Great game. Bledsoe played awful, and UCONN needs some jump shooters.

Quote :

"Having attended games at the expanded/renovated Allen Fieldhouse, I wish we had done a similar solution at Reynolds (raise the roof and expand within the existing structure)."

The same roof that's currently on Allen Fieldhouse is the same one that has been on there since it opened in 1955. You must be thinking of Oklahoma State's Gallagher-Iba Arena. That arena was very similar in design to Cameron Indoor Stadium (9,314) and Reynolds Coliseum (12,400), although it seated considerably less at 6,381. They built the expansion around the arena allowing them to still play games there, then once it was complete they tore down the old roof. They added suites on one side that actually overlook both the basketball arena and Boone Pickens Stadium (formerly Lewis Field). The expansion raised capacity to 13,611, and kept it as one of the loudest arenas in college basketball.

Pre-expansion


Post-expansion

12/10/2009 12:14:21 AM

^that's sick. oh what could have been^2

12/10/2009 12:27:43 AM

^^You're right. I got my expansions mixed up. Allen Fieldhouse essentially reconfigured seating to add another 1,100 seats or so, and this year did concessions/concourse improvements. The OK State idea would have been great for Reynolds.

12/10/2009 6:46:55 AM

uconn ran into a wall lastnight

12/10/2009 12:30:05 PM

God I wish that were our arena

12/10/2009 12:32:28 PM

Quote :

"If the Gale Force ushers wouldn't block people from moving down to the lower deck, it wouldn't look nearly as bad on TV. Heck, I have been to games at Wake where they invite people to move down to the lower bowl 10 minutes in."

Completely agree there Mark... I wish they'd even let us move downstairs at halftime at the least. I'd be more than happy to vacate a lower bowl seat if the ticket holder showed up...

Quote :

"State is one of the few places to consistently have a full upper deck and a half-empty lower deck."

I've been a season ticket holder this season and last season in the upper deck baseline. Last year there were clearly more season tickets sold in the upper deck. This year, you can tell that the majority of the tickets have been sold in the best section in each price bracket.. Majority of fans in the cheap baseline seats are located in 336, 330, 318 & 310. Majority of fans in the upper deck sideline are in 323, 324, 325, 305, 304, 303. The other sections are just empty. I hope this is a case of people not wanting to attend the cupcake OOC games, but we'll just have to wait and see (a good number of people got an ACC package last year too).

Anyway, even with a smaller crowd in the upper deck so far this year, it would still help

the fan experience
crowd noise/support of the team
and television visibility

if they let people move downstairs at an acceptable point during the games (hell, maybe just for OOC games). We could probably have a couple thousand more fans visible on TV anyway.


RBC Seating Chart by price bracket:
http://www.gopack.com/pics15/1024/CA/CAWNAZJSXQKDIFX.20060811151249.jpg?&DB_OEM_ID=9200

12/10/2009 1:02:23 PM

my friend and I were discussing possible solutions to this and he had a great idea but it would be up to the LTR and season holders to actually be responsible

ticket holders knowing they would not be in attendance for the game could forfeit their seats to someone in the upper deck by a simple phone call and the attendant could simply mark their seats as vacant for upper seats holders. i know its not that easy but a good place to start i think

12/10/2009 1:53:31 PM

^ definitely a good idea, but would require STH to take action, and would require RBC staff to mark the seats. With season ticket packets, the WPC includes an envelope that you can mail back tickets you won't be using. Supposedly they are donated to children, or some sort of charity.

For any of the home RBC games this season, where over half of the lower level seats are empty, it would have been very easy just to make an announcement at half time for fans to go ahead and move down to the lower level (maybe a disclaimer to vacate any seats that are occupied).

Very little effort required by the staff that way imo.

If it works well, and the larger, closer & noisier crowd helps us win, maybe we could consider having people move down after 10 mins have expired in the 1st.

12/10/2009 2:57:22 PM

I had no idea reynold's sat 14,000 seats, thats a lot more than I thought and seems like enough for the university, alas I suppose it was inevitable that money won out

12/10/2009 6:03:12 PM

14,000? Where did you see that number? I've always seen 12,400 as the old capacity and between 8-9,000 for the new capacity.

12/10/2009 6:25:04 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/reynolds.html

Quote :

"The Coliseum has been the home to the fabled Wolfpack basketball teams including two NCAA champions, and it had hosted great events - exciting tournaments, presidential addresses, musical concerts, even a public lecture by world famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright attended by 5000 people. The $2.3 million building is named for William Neal Reynolds, one of five brothers who developed the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, established by the oldest brother. The building's arena floor measures 108 x 312 feet with enough seating for 14,000 people. "

12/10/2009 6:35:45 PM

Depaul sure is horrible. I think we would beat them by 40 points.

12/10/2009 8:02:54 PM

I like the RBC, but would've loved if there had been an option to stay at Reynolds. Would this OSU thing have potentially worked at all at Reynolds or was this just a special circumstance kind of thing?

12/10/2009 9:54:24 PM