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[quote]#6 seed Arizona State is playing #11 seed Georgia at the Gwinnett Arena in Duluth, GA. That's 45 minutes or so from Athens but it's considerably closer than playing in Atlanta would be. I know the thought is to help attendance but they're playing in a nearly empty building, as UGA doesn't even draw well at home (unless Tennessee comes to town) and this particular mediocre squad inspired pretty much zero interest.[/i]
I think I just figured out where some of those fans were. Attendance for the basketball tournament game listed as 2,200 and change in the local writeup. Attendance for today's UGA-Miss St baseball game on campus? 4,461 which is a new record at Foley Field. I've seen the fans at both and there's a reasonable amount of non-student carryover between the two with older fans. I have to think that baseball game, for whatever reason, was the choice of at least 500 people who would have otherwise gone to the basketball tournament to follow the local team.
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