Final Word on the SoCon Tourney

Surely having over 8,000 people in the Coliseum on Saturday showed the Southern Conference that they need to keep the tournament here. Here's the deal, sometime in the next few weeks the conference will announce its home for the next 3 years. Chattanooga and Charleston are the only 2 cities to submit a bid. They are the only two cities to host the tournament the last 5 years. I'm not just being a homer when I say the tournament needs to pick a permanent home and it needs to be in North Charleston. The truth is it doesn't matter where this tournament is held, the only way it will thrive is when a local school makes it to the finals. The College of Charleston finally made that happen. The Southern Conference is too small and still plays in the shadow of the ACC and SEC so it's not like they're going to get too many casual basketball fans to come to a game between Elon and Wofford on a Friday afternoon. The ACC this is not, but when crowds like Friday and Saturday night come together it sure feels like March Madness.