NIT games Tuesday 3/19

[tornado]

I am watching the first NIT game Niagara at Maryland and Manual HS's Marvin Jordan is PG for Niagara

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=330780120

[Da Coach]

Thre are quite a few NIT games tonight-

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?date=20130319&confId=50

[tornado]

ESPN has Kentucky at Robert Morris and it's not easy going early on for UK

[Da Coach]

Robert Morris lead for all but a few seconds of the game and by as much as 13 points, and then held on for a 59-57 win over Kentucky

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=330780096

[Da Coach]

There are some very low attendance numbers in some of the NIT and other tournament games so far. Last night I watched part of the Alabama home game in the NIT vs. Northeastern. Alabama won 62-43, but the arena was virtually empty. The announced attendance was 2,889, but appeared much smaller- only a few hundred. Alabama's average home attendance this year was 11,530, so even if the posted attendance is correct, that is less than 25% of what they usually draw.
The Steven F. Austin game at Stanford drew only 1,050! And games at Maryland, Florida State, Denver, all drew only a fraction of their usual attendance. And the 3 CBI games last night all drew barely more than 1,000 each.

[tornado]

Maryland's announced attendance was 4053...but it certainly looked like a lot less.

Here are a few pics from the game - some sections had some people but there were NOT 4000 people there

http://www.printroom.com/ViewGalleryPhoto.asp?userid=MarylandSchoolPhotos&gallery_id=3236046&image_id=2

http://www.printroom.com/ViewGalleryPhoto.asp?userid=MarylandSchoolPhotos&gallery_id=3236046&image_id=1