Probably not the best time to ask, but . . .
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I used to go to the Big East Tournament every year with Georgetown until 1995. MSG is one of the poorest designed arenas ,I have ever seen. They had the main entrances to the floor at mid court, so elephants entering the arena had the best views. The concourses narrowed significantly for no apparent reason creating congestion during halftime and games' end
There may have been changes since my last visit but MSG is nothing special but enjoy NYC
There may have been changes since my last visit but MSG is nothing special but enjoy NYC
Wow, Doc. I've never heard anyone describe the place one way or the other. Always kind of imagined it'd be toward the top end of arenas. Guess I'll see. I had imagined we'd have a pretty good turnout, what with the many East Coast alums . . . but with the way the season has gone, I'm guessing enthusiasm has dampened a bit. Still would love to see a decent purple turnout, though.
I'm a Knicks fan so I hit a game each year. The arena has a 1970s era vide to it. I mean, jeez this it tough to describe you have to experience it, but I swear I thought Night Fever from the Bee Gees was going to start playing on the speakers. They have this tinted glass, I mean, it is like Norris student center if it had never ever been updated.
Still love the knicks though, recover soon Latvian great Kristaps Porzingis!
We should try to meet up pre or post game, there are tons of bars in the area. (NU fave spot Blondies is much too far).
I may actually go. It will be the first Men's basketball game I've attended since another game in MSG, a mind-numbingly bad loss to Fordham.
We need fans at our games next week! Plural is intentional. Check StubHub. TONS of great seats are available!
The Garden concourse is the only place in the city you can still get pound of meat corned beef or pastrami sandwiches from Carnegie Deli. The acoustics aren't great but the sightlines are good. I'm starting to get the itch. Tournament ball can be the best!
You gotta go with the Pastrami. Other parts of the country do good corned beef. But nowhere but NY can you get decent pastrami. With a dark mustard. Wash it down with a beer.
But for the beer (since I don't drink the stuff), I'm gonna take your advice on the pastrami, Medill. Pastrami may not be cardiology approved, but it makes the world a happier place.
If they get to Friday, I may be able to get up there. Would be cool to go back to back years as I'm a big fan of the conference tournament. Haven't been able to do that in about a decade.
Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I've been lucky enough not to have missed one yet.
I’ll be in San Diego for work from Wednesday - Saturday. Hoping the Cats keep winning and force me into trying to figure out how to watch the Friday/Saturday games. I’ll ditch out on work commitments and risk my career to watch a Big Ten tourney Cats run.
Do they still offer the half pastrami, half corned beef in a single sandwich? That one was hard to beat with the pile of melted Swiss gluing it all together.
I see there is also a Carnegie Deli at the Mirage in Las Vegas. Anyone compared it to the New York original?
I just got 3 tickets for the Thurs night session based on the guess that we'll be in the 7/10 game. Prob playing IU or PSU. A couple friends coming with. If we beat Iowa on Sunday then there's a chance we go up to 8/9 (not sure who has tiebreak btw us and Wiscy as we split season series 1-1). If so I might take a half day Thurs and go watch all 4 games, though I'd imagine my friends would not join me in that.
I'm actually out of the city for Fri and Sat unfortunately, though if by some extreme miracle we make it to Sunday I'd get myself back to watch that one.
Tickets are quite cheap right now. Still think it was dumb of them to do it a week early at MSG instead the normal timeline at Barclays, but I've done that rant before so I'll refrain from repeating myself.
On this, they have re-done it since then so it's slightly more modern, and the concourses + concessions are much better than 10 or so years ago. They also added these overhanging Chase bridge seats which I've never actually used.
That said, still think it's a pretty dumpy arena overall. But if the Rangers are good (or the Knicks I suppose but that hasn't happened since I've been in NYC), it can turn into a decent atmosphere. Oh and don't get the 300 level seats behind the basket (goal), those look okay on paper but are bad view bc beneath the overhang.
There is only one very unlikely scenario in which we will be a 9 seed, so we are pretty much locked into 10. So our game will be at 6:30 on Thursday. I bought 4 in section 113 for $70 all in. Now if we make it to Friday prices will go up, but I will be happy to pay full price to root for the Cats on a second night!
Also think they will go in as a#10 seed. Hoping for the best. Is the bracket posted somewhere?
This is a useful site for bracket scenarios....just click on the white "Submit" button.
http://bball.notnothing.net/b10bracket.php
I'm going! Section 115 Row 4 Seat 11, will be wearing a grey NU sweatshirt if anyone is nearby and wants to say hi. Thrilled to be able to attend, as it is not a frequent occurence for me (see above). Last sporting even I attended was the Pinstripe (where a Board lurker coincidentally sat right next to me) and was not able to attend anything prior to that since the aformentioned Fordham fisaco
Go Cats, and, even if we get blown out, thanks for the Seniors for giving me something I thought I would never see in my lifetime!
Sorry but that has to be" Wash Pastrami down with anything and I am good"See, and I'd counter with "Wash anything down with pastrami and I'm good!"
Cool, I'll try to stop by and say hello if the presumed throng of Penn State fans don't prevent me from doing so.
I have two purple and one grey; the grey one is nicer so I generally wear that one. The throng of Penn State fans never materialized at any rate.
Wrassler has 28 purple shirts!
xyzbob has 12 purple shirts!
Even Felisylvestris has 4 purple shirts!