I don't know what y'all are watching. The North Texas game looked ok, but the rest looked terrible. My son and I watched the end of the Southern Miss game and we counted 5 people in the stands and maybe 50 in the courtside bleachers. Not a good look. I think the semis and finals will probably fill the courtside bleachers, but there is no getting around the vast panorama of empty seats in the stands themselves.

They ought to just take a page from FIU's book and put walls behind the baskets and have someone paint a sunset. Or hold it in a nice high school facility somewhere with a 2,000 capacity that might be filled, at least for the championship game.

Or better yet, let the higher seeds host so it is played in front of 8,500 at ODU and 11,500 at MTSU.