You are saying that the lower bowl was no more than 1/4 full? I think that may have been true near where I was sitting, but when I looked over to the other side it looked more like 4/5 full and maybe 1/2 full on the sides. Alan, what was the actual count in The Roundhouse on Richland Friday night?

No I'm saying that the lower bowl represents less than 1/4 of total capacity.

So if there were 300-500 empties below the concourse, which I'm estimating, that means to get to 6500 there'd have to be 4k above the concourse. And there simply wasn't.

I'm not crusading against the ticket vs butts count. I'm just trying to give a real estimate based on facts and the layout of the arena. It's a big circle. Rows at the top have way more seats than rows at the bottom. Geometry and stuff. Miami game was a legit 6500-7, maybe more, and there were way way fewer peeps Friday.

Looks like that blowout was the last straw for Huger.

7,053 was the official count according to ESPN (which I believe gets it from the university).

FWIW 8,322 was official count for Fiami game earlier.

I would also love to know more of the Towns backstory. I tried to follow him as much as I could and from what I gather, he and DW3 do NOT get along at all. I can't believe nobody has mentioned DW dunking on him and then rocking the baby back down the court. It was all very enjoyable but it really pains me that he got the satisfaction of the win at BG.

Agree with others that BG was terrible. I met the BG Athletic Director at Broneys pre-game...Nice guy. He had only been on the job 3 months and I wondered if he may have been evaluating a final decision on Huger.

AJ Brown was super aggressive and effective. Hope he gets that smooth shot-creation going at just the right time. I really enjoy how both he & Elmore add that old school dimension of mid-range jumpers.

Clayton's hot streak from behind the arc was awesome, and true to form he followed it up with a cold streak. He and his 3 point shooting is such an enigma...but I still prefer he find a way to be more selective.

Only 7 turnovers and 4 were from DW/Wiz. Hats off to the guards, some great passes to go with taking care of the ball. Roderick had several great hustle plays.

Cleveland is an extremely difficult path, we just have to get hot and stay hot.

Oh and the clock issues to start the game...really frustrating. I don't know the backstory but haven't ever seen anything like that even in HS let alone college.

 

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Might be nothing, might be something, but I noticed something interesting about Towns when he was here. At womens and volleyball games, when groups from the men’s basketball team attended, they always sat as a group. Except Sam Towns. He usually sat by himself or with a non-basketball team friend away from the other guys.

Remember seeing that as well. Thought it was odd at the time - can also remember when Sears was a guest on BobcatTracks, when he was discussing playing videogames / Fortnite with the guys Towns would always try to land them on a risky part of the map and they eventually overruled him after they were killed a few times. I know him and Sears were very tight and Sears transferring maybe could have affected his decision to transfer. I have no clue of what else could have happened but was extremely disheartened to see him gesturing our bench. Clearly there is some beef, but I'm very puzzled as to how it would have started.