Got my two tickets right at 11:00. Center court in the upper level. Should carry a decent resell value if I want to sell.
2023 March Madness Des Moines
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Because the seating was designed with hockey in mind. Basketball was secondary.
It's a terrible venue for watching basketball. The redeeming qualities are number of locker rooms, number of nearby hotels (and the skywalk), and the central location.
The setup in the back area was so embarrassing in 2016 they weren't sure if the NCAA would come back.
I don’t know about the back end stuff like that but there are people that just like to complain about it from a fan perspective. Is it a great basketball arena no but the amount of it sucks for basketball is just moronic. It is perfectly acceptable for basketball from a fan standpoint. As long as attendance continues to remain high it will remain one of the better locations for the tournament too. We don’t need sleepy half filled arenas.
On thing I remember about it, was that exiting after an event was a cluster.
There are a lot of Venues that are a quarter full when the games are being played. That is one of the reasons they try to keep teams in certain areas. So tickets are sold. It still sometimes don't work though. If you watch the games, a lot of tickets go unsold. In Des Moines, they generally sell out.
The problem is that they didn't put in retractable seating at the ends like at T-Mobile Arena in KC. The lower bowl has a much steeper pitch so you are much closer to the court. The Well is awful if you are behind the baskets. The fact that they built the Well around hockey seating is a hilarious miscalculation. It's minor league hockey, you don't need seats on the glass on the ends...
Actually, most venues are sold out, they just don't have butts in the seats. Only a certain amount of tickets go on sale to the general public, the rest are all held back for teams and corporations.
Des Moines leaders panicked when there started to be serious talk about moving the state basketball and wrestling tournaments out of DSM and just threw together a not very well thought out building.
It would have been just fine to play basketball in Ames for a few years and split wrestling between Iowa City and Cedar Falls for a few years while they built the right building.
It would have been just fine to play basketball in Ames for a few years and split wrestling between Iowa City and Cedar Falls for a few years while they built the right building.
My problem with Wells Fargo is it feels like you are a million miles away from the court. If I had seats in Hilton and then comparable seats in Wells Fargo, in Hilton I feel closer to the court and in Wells Fargo I feel a long ways away.
This is why I dislike WF.
This is why I dislike WF.
I don’t necessarily disagree but that is more because you are comparing to Hilton.
Hilton is an excellent arena for basketball. There are maybe some changes we could do to improve the seats but most of the Hilton issues are with concessions and the concourse.
Wells Fargo Arena has much better concessions and concourses. It’s arena seating could be better but it is adequate especially for an arena that is built for multi use. I compare Wells Fargo and it is comparable to the Sprint Center or whatever it is called now. It is much better than the arena in Omaha. Carver Hawkeye is a disaster. The United Center is better but that is an NBA Arena so I would hope it is better. Even then I didn’t think it was that much of an improvement over Wells Fargo.
I get that but I don't go to arenas to eat and walk around the concourses, I go to watch basketball games.
For NCAA tournament games that is a consideration due to the timing of everything.
My larger point is that we are spoiled with Hilton.
I agree I compare other venues to the best (Hilton). Just like any vacation I take gets compared to the best one I've been on (St. Lucia).
Lol, like what? Sites are going to be limited to half the country if they decide to only have the tourney in states that allow abortion.
