College Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
These schools don't have much in common on paper Instead they're bound together by excellence Duke fans ensure North Carolina players never get comfortable when visiting Cameron Indoor Stadium
Tennessee coach Pat Summitt set the standard for a successful women’s program during the 1980s and 1990s Then UConn’s Geno Auriemma built a program that could match it Their games captivated fans around the country From 1995 to 2007 the schools met 22 times During those years for nine NCAA titles they combined Though Tennessee took a step back after Summitt retired in 2012 power programs such as Stanford and Notre Dame have stepped up to challenge the Huskies in recent years While games between the nation’s top programs always attract attention it’s the regional rivalries that really drive the sport all across the country There’s Duke-North
Carolina Louisville-Kentucky Indiana Purdue Kansas-Missouri Georgetown Villanova Arizona-UCLA and many more Rivalry games matter regardless of how good the teams are that season The NBA might have new state-of-the-art arenas but college basketball’s barns have in the history The Palestra Philadelphia of Pennsylvania is known as the Cathedral of College Basketball It opened in 1927 and has played host to more college games and visiting teams than any other venue One year later Butler University opened its arena now known as Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis Indiana For two decades it stood as the largest basketball arena in the located the University at
country and the climactic scenes of the 1986 movie Hoosiers were filmed there Allen Fieldhouse in Kansas has been around since 1955 If you go see a game there you'll hear fans recite an even older chant Rock Chalk Jayhawk KU Confetti falls on the South Carolina women's team after they won the 2017 national title
