Larry grumbles: :-) >2) Desa goes on to say, "I don't think we would have sold the building >out even if the Friars had made it. We might have sold 1000 more >advance tickets and the walk-up would have been better". Hey >Providence fans, is Desa right? I know if this was UNH you would have >packed the place, just as in the HE finals. Providence's Schneider Arena seats 3,000. They had somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 for a Friday night HE *playoff* game vs UMass-Lowell. Then, PC fans were outnumbered something like 4,000 to 50 (UNH fans will back me up) by UNH fans for their Thursday night HE q-final in Boston. I do not believe that a difference would have been made if Providence had been named to the East regional. PC hockey fans have not supported their team well this year, sad to say, despite a fourth straight 20+ win season. I don't know whether it's the competition with hoop, but hoop had a poor season in 91-92. The reason I say a difference wouldn't have been made, even though Providence would have been the home team, is that the three biggest draws in HE - Maine, UNH, and BU - all made the regional. If PC was named in place of one of those, then I don't think the additional PC fans would make up for the loss of those fans. - mike