ECACs to Providence?

[Towerroad]

Plus it isn't Boston!  ::rock::

Boston would be great if you could just remove all the Bostonians.

Even then it would be downwind of Harvard.

[andyw2100]

Could be.

In addition, Bennett says that he will meet with officials from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference on Aug. 30 to discuss moving the ECAC men's hockey tournament to Providence.

Even though the ECAC is under contract to hold its tournament in Atlantic City, N.J., through 2013, "we're going to see if we can convince them to come here this spring," Bennett said. The ECAC tourney drew disappointing crowds in Atlantic City last March.

Looks like "this spring" is now out. I just received an e-mail message advertising tickets for the ECAC championships in Atlantic City. Here is the event being sold on Ticketmaster:

2012 ECAC Hockey Men's Championship: All Session Tickets
Boardwalk Hall
Atlantic City, NJ
Fri, Mar 16, 2012 - Sat, Mar 17, 2012
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02004670A9F66D50?artistid=1601196&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=9

[nyc94]

Mostly unrelated but I thought it worth mentioning the Atlantic 10 will move their basketball tournament from Atlantic City to Brooklyn in 2013.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/atlantic-10-will-move-conference-tournament-from-atlantic-city-to-brooklyn/2011/09/26/gIQAn6u5zK_story.html

[Swampy]

Mostly unrelated but I thought it worth mentioning the Atlantic 10 will move their basketball tournament from Atlantic City to Brooklyn in 2013.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/atlantic-10-will-move-conference-tournament-from-atlantic-city-to-brooklyn/2011/09/26/gIQAn6u5zK_story.html

Maybe they're moving because they expect Temple to jump to the Big East after UConn & Rutgers (or WVa) jump to the ACC.

[billhoward]

Mostly unrelated but I thought it worth mentioning the Atlantic 10 will move their basketball tournament from Atlantic City to Brooklyn in 2013.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/atlantic-10-will-move-conference-tournament-from-atlantic-city-to-brooklyn/2011/09/26/gIQAn6u5zK_story.html

You're not thinking ECAC hockey bumped them? And what the heck is the Atlantic 10? It's not, like, a renaming of the ACC? Wait, here it is: Charlotte, Dayton, Duquesne, Fordham, George Washington, La Salle, UMass, Rhode Island, Richmond, St. Bonaventure, St. Joseph's, St. Louis, Temple and Xavier. The story says their attendance was pretty sucky, too, not a lot better than what our little hockey tournament drew.