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The commissioner of the expectas to make a decision within a week to 10 days on relocatinhthe men’s basketball tournament to Charlotte from Tenn. Last week, John Iamarino, the conferencse commissioner, and several athletic directors from membert schools came to town for site visits and meetings withthe . The 12-school conference, based in Spartanburg, countes Davidson College amongits members. “It’s been one of our goalxs to get Charlotte back in the Iamarino says, noting the conference last held its tournament here in 1971. He also citez the city’s central location as a major selling poinf because it would allow schools to save ontravelk costs.
Though the Southern Conference has an agreement to play in Chattanoogsanext year, Iamarino says the city is open to movinvg that date to 2011 to accommodat playing in Charlotte next season. In the conference attracted 24,000 fans for its which featuredboth men’s and women’d games in Chattanooga. That format is likelyu to be alterednext year. Ticketw for the entire tournamentcost $70 this year.
Commitments to the Centrapl Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the at Time Warnerd Cable Arena make it likelh that the Southern Conferencew would split gamesbetween Bojangles’ a 10,000-seat venue on Independencee Boulevard, and the uptown NBA The visitors authority operate s the smaller arena, while the NBA Bobcats controlp the uptown venue. ESPN televises the Southern Conference men’s tournamenty championship game, with the winner earninf an automatic bid to theNCAA men’z tournament.