NCAA Ticket Info

[billhoward]

I heard this looked great on TV but the crowd was equal to about half the stadium capacity (15K of 30K) so there was little room to move around. I think Princeton said it was the NCAA that did it.

Didn't they used to hang a big curtain in front of the upper deck in Albany?

Albany did and the curtain did a nice job hiding all the empties. But then Albany holds 14,236 for hockey, a huge size for a town of 98,000 -- one seat for every seven residents.

[RichH]

The NCAA and ECAC always seem to put the four schools in the corners and save blue line to blue line for others. Cornell is in Section 122. This is a seating chart for Dancing on Ice which seemed closer than the tennis or boxing or stage concert seating charts. If you wanted seats between the blue lines, it'd be 102 (closest to 122), 103 (center ice), 104.

Seating capacity for hockey is  9,852. If you google 'manchester arena seating capacity' and get 21,000, that's for Manchester, UK.

For driving:
SNHU Arena (Southern New Hampshire Arena)
555 Elm Street
Manchester, New Hampshire 03101

6 hours, 360 miles from Ithaca. (245 / 4:15 from NYC.) Providence would have only been 35 miles less.

12 noon Saturday
3:30 p.m. Sunday

The seating chart you posted (edit: and since corrected) is completely different than what ticketmaster or the SNHU Arena website shows. 122 is from the blue line to the circles.

[abmarks]

The NCAA and ECAC always seem to put the four schools in the corners and save blue line to blue line for others. Cornell is in Section 122. This is a seating chart for Dancing on Ice which seemed closer than the tennis or boxing or stage concert seating charts. If you wanted seats between the blue lines, it'd be 102 (closest to 122), 103 (center ice), 104.

Seating capacity for hockey is  9,852. If you google 'manchester arena seating capacity' and get 21,000, that's for Manchester, UK.

For driving:
SNHU Arena (Southern New Hampshire Arena)
555 Elm Street
Manchester, New Hampshire 03101

6 hours, 360 miles from Ithaca. (245 / 4:15 from NYC.) Providence would have only been 35 miles less.

12 noon Saturday
3:30 p.m. Sunday

The seating chart you posted is completely different than what ticketmaster or the SNHU Arena website shows. 122 is from the blue line to the circles.

+1   I went back to my ticketmaster order, and I had selected 121 on the site by picking a specific seat visually, and it definitely is between blue line and center ice (for 121)


Edit:  a little research shows that the image posted by Bill is, amusingly, the UK arena.

[jkahn]

Below is the corrected seating chart. In section 122, it appears the Cornell section is the section Cornell shoots at in the first and third periods if it is the lower ranked / visiting team (for sure Saturday and also Sunday if it plays the 1-seed).

In the tournament the home team gets their choice of bench, so Lowell may or may not choose the same bench that the Manchester Monarchs use.

[Greenberg '97]

I heard this looked great on TV but the crowd was equal to about half the stadium capacity (15K of 30K) so there was little room to move around. I think Princeton said it was the NCAA that did it.

Bill, guess which two members of elynah commented at the time...

http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?7,115938,115940

[riverchief1]

Lowell's bench is the one in front of Section 108 per their fan tournament page found HERE. Their fan sections are Sections 109 through 114.

[billhoward]

Lowell's bench is the one in front of Section 108 per their fan tournament page found HERE. Their fan sections are Sections 109 through 114.

Lowell's fan section has more news you can use: There's a half-marathon and parade scheduled nearby, starting at 10 a.m. and, unless these are world-class runners and parade-marchers, probably running through game time.

[Jim Hyla]

Lowell's bench is the one in front of Section 108 per their fan tournament page found HERE. Their fan sections are Sections 109 through 114.

Lowell's fan section has more news you can use: There's a half-marathon and parade scheduled nearby, starting at 10 a.m. and, unless these are world-class runners and parade-marchers, probably running through game time.

Thanks for the heads up. It certainly would seem that parking will be a problem, even for those of us who get there early. Fortunately there is a parking garage nearby.

[riverchief1]

Lowell's bench is the one in front of Section 108 per their fan tournament page found HERE. Their fan sections are Sections 109 through 114.

Lowell's fan section has more news you can use: There's a half-marathon and parade scheduled nearby, starting at 10 a.m. and, unless these are world-class runners and parade-marchers, probably running through game time.

Thanks for the heads up. It certainly would seem that parking will be a problem, even for those of us who get there early. Fortunately there is a parking garage nearby.

Yes, we're aware of the event (thanks!) and on Lowell's tournament page HERE, they're doing their best to make people aware of it.

Note that there is also a tradeshow Made In New Hampshire taking place at the hotel so keep in mind that parking garage may also be under some strain from that event as well as the half marathon.  Be on the lookout for surface lots and on street spaces in the area south of the marathon area and arena from what we've been told.  Bottom line is allow for plenty of extra time to get in and settled.

[Trotsky]

Lowell's bench is the one in front of Section 108 per their fan tournament page found HERE. Their fan sections are Sections 109 through 114.

Lowell's fan section has more news you can use: There's a half-marathon and parade scheduled nearby, starting at 10 a.m. and, unless these are world-class runners and parade-marchers, probably running through game time.

Runners and hockey fans Venn diagram.

[Scersk '97]

I heard this looked great on TV but the crowd was equal to about half the stadium capacity (15K of 30K) so there was little room to move around. I think Princeton said it was the NCAA that did it.

Didn't they used to hang a big curtain in front of the upper deck in Albany?

Albany did and the curtain did a nice job hiding all the empties. But then Albany holds 14,236 for hockey, a huge size for a town of 98,000 -- one seat for every seven residents.

City populations are old hat; we use MSAs now. Albany's arena draws regionally from a population of 1,168,485; thus, .012 seats per capita.

[billhoward]

I heard this looked great on TV but the crowd was equal to about half the stadium capacity (15K of 30K) so there was little room to move around. I think Princeton said it was the NCAA that did it.

Didn't they used to hang a big curtain in front of the upper deck in Albany?

Albany did and the curtain did a nice job hiding all the empties. But then Albany holds 14,236 for hockey, a huge size for a town of 98,000 -- one seat for every seven residents.

City populations are old hat; we use MSAs now. Albany's arena draws regionally from a population of 1,168,485; thus, .012 seats per capita.

Point taken. Either way, way more seats available for the Albany region than for MSG, with 0.001 seats per capita.

[Robin]

Anyone know which section the band will be in?

[redice]

Anyone know which section the band will be in?

124

[billhoward]

That is: Band section 124 in the corner at ice level (maybe top of the level?), Cornell seating 122 just inside the blue line.