MBB adds exhibition game vs. Providence

[the Blades]

I know it's a fund raiser but it's pretty pricey for a one-off game that doesn't count:
( since ticketmaster charges you over $20 for a $10 ticket w/ their added fees)

Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Mohegan Sun Arena
The NCAA has granted a waiver to schools to play an extra exhibition game this year, provided the proceeds are donated to hurricane relief. UConn will still play its scheduled exhibition games on Monday, Oct. 30, against Merrimack at the XL Center in Hartford and on Sunday, Nov. 5, against Queens College at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs.

Tickets for the UConn-Providence game are available through TicketMaster or the Mohegan Sun Ticket Office. Tickets are $50 for courtside, $25 for lower bowl seating and $10 for the upper bowl.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Thanks for posting this. Mohegan Sun Casino is only a 45 minute drive from where I live so I will go to this one for sure.

 

[the Blades]

I'm happy for grown-ups who like the location, but I can tell the slippery path this is going down, allowing A CASINO to use CBB to market GAMBLING to college aged Uconn students, 75% of whom are underage. (with the justification... now ...that this is a fundraiser) ... I expect Uconn to "sell out " more games to the evil empire in the future and I'm not happy about it.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Blades you don't think this game will sell out do you? Mohegan Sun just an hour from Providence so we will get their fans coming too. I am wondering if I should buy tickets soon?

 

[the Blades]

Good question....Just a FYI, walk up price @ the arena box office is $12 & $27. Ticketmaster, with their fees, adds about $10 more per ticket for the "convenience" of ordering them online

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Blades. . . Should I roll the dice and wait to get tickets at the box office before the game? I don't mean roll the dice literally at the Casino.... I mean figuratively as in gambling that the game will not sell out. I don't wanna get raked on fees by Ticketmaster.

I have seen multiple basketball games there and it's a good venue for a UConn- PC game

 

[the Blades]

My guess mid week, add on game( no season tix holders forced to buy it like the other Exh. games)... it won't sell out...

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Blades I decided to suck it up and take my raking from Ticketmaster. I purchased a ticket in section 17. Damage was $38.10. I realize it's a lot to pay for an exhibition but at least the money is going to Hurricane relief efforts and I am getting to see a high quality opponent which played in the NCAA tourney the last 4 years. That's how I justified the purchase in my head.

 

[the Blades]

$38.10........ ( I bet ya ticketmaster doesn't give up a dime of their take and the casino benefits just as much because their whole thing on any entertainment they have is to just break even or less and to get a % of the people to lose $$$ on their gambling rackets right out the doors of the arena. )

This whole set-up is very strange:
"Exhibition games, for which admission is charged, must be against Division II opponents or lower. For two Division I teams to meet, it must be a scrimmage, not open to the public. However, the NCAA has granted a blanket waiver for this event "

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Blades don't forget some Casino restaurant will get my dinner money even if the Casino doesn't get a dime from me on their Gaming Activities. I assume Ticketmaster is making $10 on me, actually it was a $25 ticket that became $38.10 even though I chose will call delivery which was free. There was going to be yet another fee for emailing me the tickets so I said enough was enough on the gauging of my consumership.

I am not normally the kind of person that willingly submits to such an obvious raking, but the time and place of the game works well for me. I would only make this sacrifice to support our UConn hoopsters. Wouldn't do it for any other team, possibly excepting the NY Yankees. Although they don't need my support as much as UConn hoops does.

I also dropped well over $3500 on the Atlantis trip to see 3 UConn games in 2011, something I have never done for any other college or pro sports team.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

A thought occurred to me about this game. Playing an exhibition game against a high calibre Division 1 opponent, indeed one that competes with UConn for recruits (e.g., Ashton-Langford) is unchartered territory for UConn. I am wondering if Ollie will play the game to win it, or use the game as a laboratory experiment for testing combinations of players, giving healthy distributions of minutes to all scholarship players, and seeing what everyone can do with generous minutes. In past years, against the low level D-2 opponents, UConn was rarely threatened with losing the game and could play anyone and everyone as they wished. Should that be the attitude with this game- after all, it is an exhibition game and doesn't count? Or should Ollie pull out at least a few stops, overplay the starters more than in the average exhibition game, and see if he can hang a loss on Cooley and PC?

 

[the Blades]

October 24, 2017 - Men's Basketball To Play UConn On Wed., At Mohegan Sun On Fox Sports Go

 

[UconNell]

$38.10........ ( I bet ya ticketmaster doesn't give up a dime of their take and the casino benefits just as much because their whole thing on any entertainment they have is to just break even or less and to get a % of the people to lose $$$ on their gambling rackets right out the doors of the arena. )

This whole set-up is very strange:
"Exhibition games, for which admission is charged, must be against Division II opponents or lower. For two Division I teams to meet, it must be a scrimmage, not open to the public. However, the NCAA has granted a blanket waiver for this event "

Blades don't forget some Casino restaurant will get my dinner money even if the Casino doesn't get a dime from me on their Gaming Activities. I assume Ticketmaster is making $10 on me, actually it was a $25 ticket that became $38.10 even though I chose will call delivery which was free. There was going to be yet another fee for emailing me the tickets so I said enough was enough on the gauging of my consumership.

I am not normally the kind of person that willingly submits to such an obvious raking, but the time and place of the game works well for me. I would only make this sacrifice to support our UConn hoopsters. Wouldn't do it for any other team, possibly excepting the NY Yankees. Although they don't need my support as much as UConn hoops does.

I also dropped well over $3500 on the Atlantis trip to see 3 UConn games in 2011, something I have never done for any other college or pro sports team.

A thought occurred to me about this game. Playing an exhibition game against a high calibre Division 1 opponent, indeed one that competes with UConn for recruits (e.g., Ashton-Langford) is unchartered territory for UConn. I am wondering if Ollie will play the game to win it, or use the game as a laboratory experiment for testing combinations of players, giving healthy distributions of minutes to all scholarship players, and seeing what everyone can do with generous minutes. In past years, against the low level D-2 opponents, UConn was rarely threatened with losing the game and could play anyone and everyone as they wished. Should that be the attitude with this game- after all, it is an exhibition game and doesn't count? Or should Ollie pull out at least a few stops, overplay the starters more than in the average exhibition game, and see if he can hang a loss on Cooley and PC?

A thought occurred to me about this game. Playing an exhibition game against a high calibre Division 1 opponent, indeed one that competes with UConn for recruits (e.g., Ashton-Langford) is unchartered territory for UConn. I am wondering if Ollie will play the game to win it, or use the game as a laboratory experiment for testing combinations of players, giving healthy distributions of minutes to all scholarship players, and seeing what everyone can do with generous minutes. In past years, against the low level D-2 opponents, UConn was rarely threatened with losing the game and could play anyone and everyone as they wished. Should that be the attitude with this game- after all, it is an exhibition game and doesn't count? Or should Ollie pull out at least a few stops, overplay the starters more than in the average exhibition game, and see if he can hang a loss on Cooley and PC?

I think this depends on how Cooley plays the scrimmage.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Here is the game preview:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.cour...nn-men-advance-providence-1025-story,amp.html

The backcourt matchup of Adams-Gilbert vs. Cartwright-Ashton Langford is going to be a great one! Also anxious to see how the UConn bigs perform. Looking forward to this game very much.

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

Providence is ranked #23 in the updated ESPN preseason power rankings. There are two AAC teams in the top 10, Wichita State #5 and Cincinnati #9. No other AAC teams are in these rankings.

 

[the Blades]

Best thing about this game (even though it doesn't count)now that it's on FoxSportsGo.com-(link), is we'll get to see some Uconn hoops, and it doesn't cost a dime !

Uconn preview:

 

[the Blades]

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

I was there in 1993 for the last exhibition game loss and I will be there tonight, if in fact a loss happens. UConn actually played 3 or 4 games against Marathon Oil back in the 1980s and early 1990s. I recall vividly one of those Marathon Oil teams featured former UConn star Earl Kelly, who played against a UConn team that started Chris Smith, an intriguing matchup of former CT Players of The Year. Who were also both main man players at UConn. I think Marathon got rid of Earl shortly after that game due to off court issues.