syracuse and pitt should be frozen out of the garden for any "holiday" festival..along with west virginia, miami, boston college and virginia tech.
i would have loved to have seen an eight game festival with all solid locals taking part. st john's doesn't want it..so forget it.
it's a shame how far the tournament has fallen. in 1986, three of the final four teams took part. we beat louisville and they went on to win the national championship.
Great post! A tournament filled with 8 local teams will pack the Garden.BUt like you said, St Johns has to be the flagship team and get involved. Maybe Lavin will some guts and endorse this
Yeah, I don't think so. This year how many people were there for STJ, Fordham, Rutgers and Stony Brook? You'd have to drop Rutgers since you couldn't have two BE teams in the same tourney so you'd replace them with Manhattan, Iona, LIU, St Francis and Hofstra I assume? That's going to fill up the rest of the seats with their rabid fan bases? I sincerely doubt it, especially after four teams are eliminated the first day.
rutgers would be dropped because they're new jersey. i think a good tournament would draw locals. especially if it's well priced.