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Big 12 basketball: Y'all come back come back now

 
By John Rohde | Published: March 15, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Two years ago, Oklahoma City took one huge step forward while hosting its first Big 12 basketball tournaments.

photo - Banners for the Big 12 men's and women's college basketball championships hang outside the Cox Convention Center on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, in Oklahoma City, Okla. PHOTO BY CHRIS LANDSBERGER
Banners for the Big 12 men's and women's college basketball championships hang outside the Cox Convention Center on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, in Oklahoma City, Okla. PHOTO BY CHRIS LANDSBERGER

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We were rewarded with this year’s event, but have we just taken two steps back?

→Two years ago, temperatures were in the 60s and 70s throughout tournament week. This year, we struggled to get out of the 30s for three straight days.

→Potential gates were damaged when three of the top four seeds lost their opening games on Thursday.

→None of the locals survived the semifinals, leaving two championship games with no school closer than 285 miles from its campus.

And yet, good news came Saturday when the men’s final between Baylor and Missouri pleasantly drew an estimated 12,000 fans inside the Ford Center (18,878 capacity).

Today’s women’s final between Baylor and Texas A&M figures to draw between 4,000-5,000 inside the Cox Convention Center (13,066 capacity), more than that if some Oklahoma fans decide to show.

The Big 12 already has chosen the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.

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