Creighton's home arena - making a bid to host Big Ten Conference Tourney!

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Creighton's home arena - making a bid to host Big Ten Conference Tourney!

09-13-2014, 06:50 PM

Big Ten eyes new Midwest locales for 2018 basketball tournament

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-jim-delany-big-ten-basketball-20140911-story.html

The off-and-on courtship between the Big Ten and Madison Square Garden is back on, as the league ponders where to hold its 2018 men’s basketball tournament. “We were talking, then we we…

The CenturyLink Center in Omaha has a seating capacity (almost 19,000) larger than most college arenas in the nation - and rivalling the United Center in Chicago (20,500) and Indianapolis (18,000)

When the Big Ten held their baseball conference tourney in Omaha last spring...
it SHATTERED all previous attendance records and was an enormous success

Will the B1G Baseball Tourney Return to Omaha?

http://www.cornnation.com/2014/5/24/5747958/will-the-big-ten-baseball-tournament-return-to-omaha

The huge turnout has caught the Big Ten's interest, and is forcing the Big Ten to rethink future plans for the baseball tournament. It'll undoubtedly return to Omaha. But probably not on an annual basis, thanks to Creighton.
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