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July 25, 2008
MAAC Madness in Albany
Th Full-Court Press
As promised, The Press is diving into the future of the MAAC tournament. Here’s how we’ll do it: Each day, we’ll take a look at one of the sites that is likely to be in the running to host the tournament from 2012-14.
...Since no decisions have been made and no official negotiations have taken place, none of the sites we’re going to look into are guaranteed to be hosts at any times. By the same token, just because we don’t examine a particular city doesn’t mean that city has no shot at being a host. But eight sites appear to be on the MAAC’s radar, and those are the ones The Press will delve into: Albany; Bridgeport; Buffalo; Mohegan Sun; the Atlantic Yards arena in Brooklyn; the Prudential Center and Meadowlands in Newark and East Rutherford; Atlantic City; and the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
NoLandGrab: Good thing the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference didn't book its conference basketball tournament in Brooklyn for the arena's originally projected opening season of 2006-2007. We have to think that the Barclays Center is not the favorite to host the tourney, since, unlike the other contenders, it doesn't actually exist.
We'll post The Full-Court Press's report on Brooklyn's chances when it's published.
Posted by eric at July 25, 2008 12:01 PM