The locations below would be a good cycle of locations for the tournament. The best venue and best location in my opinion is Memphis.

Tampa Bay Times Forum Tampa, FL 20,500 South Florida
Near Convention Center, Hotels, Water Front, Restaurants

Amway Center Orlando, FL 18,500 UCF
Downtown Orlando, 15 Minutes from International Drive, Hotels Close by

FedEx Forum Memphis, TN 18,119 Memphis
On Beale Street, Home to Memphis Basketball, Hotels Close by

New Orleans Arena New Orleans, LA 18,000 Tulane
Downtown NO, Near Bourbon Street

Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia, PA 20,444 Temple
Northern Team Tournament Location

No Philly. No Tampa.

Houston

The majority of people who go to the conference tournament are the host school/school closest by. The tournament needs to be held near/at schools that fill their seats until schools with lower attendances can build their fan bases. Nothing looks worse than a half-empty venue.

right now rotating between memphis uconn cincy (since they sell out is ideal)

(01-21-2014 09:39 PM)pesik Wrote:  right now rotating between memphis uconn cincy (since they sell out is ideal)

Yep

(01-21-2014 09:32 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  No Philly. No Tampa.

No Orlando

Cincy...men at US Bank Arena...women at 5/3 Arena.

Palestra could be cool.

(01-21-2014 09:49 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  Cincy...men at US Bank Arena...women at 5/3

Palestra could be cool.

US bank Arena would be great.

(01-21-2014 09:49 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  Cincy...men at US Bank Arena...women at 5/3 Arena.

Palestra could be cool.

Second the motion.

Palestra 1000 times. Cincy, UConn, Temple, Memphis and some ECU fans.would travel. Im sure the FL twins have a lot of alumni in the region as well.

(01-21-2014 09:47 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(01-21-2014 09:32 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  No Philly. No Tampa.

No Orlando

No. Everybody loves Orlando.

Not enough home town basketball support in Orlando or Tampa to hold it there

(01-21-2014 09:33 PM)HuskyU Wrote:   The majority of people who go to the conference tournament are the host school/school closest by. The tournament needs to be held near/at schools that fill their seats until schools with lower attendances can build their fan bases. Nothing looks worse than a half-empty venue.

The few that are suggesting Houston, Tampa, Orlando, etc...have never been to a CUSA Tourn in Memphis...(most teams in this future conf will be CUSA members) as if they did they would know that 95% or more of all ticket and season pass booklets are bought by those in the local community/local team fan base.

School like UH, USF, UCF, etc...have problems getting 4,000 fans to show up for their OWN teams games...but you expect those few fans will turn out to see Temple vs ECU? or Tulane vs Tulsa in a 19,000 seat arena?

Ah.....no.

AAC Tourn will always be held in cities where LOCAL fans turn out for their OWN team games (i.e. Memphis, Cinci, UCONN....and maybe Temple, especially if its played at the Palestra...as the NBA/NHL arena would be way too big).