A-10 Tourney Heading To Brooklyn

As rumors swirl about the ACC perhaps taking over MSG as a potential tournament site from the Big East another conference is making a great move to NYC. The Atlantic-10 Conference tournament, according to reports, will be moving in 2013 from Atlantic City to the soon-to-be home of Jay-Z's Brooklyn Nets, the Barclays Center. This will hopefully give the conference a great presence in the huge media market, as well as improving attendance that had been low at its previous site. Although more western programs like Dayton and Xavier may not be happy to have the tournament staying so far away, it places the tournament right in the middle of many of the A-10's northeastern programs. As far as the conference's New England schools, this makes the tournament an easy trip for URI and UMass fans as those programs fight their way back to the top of the conference that they occupied in the 1990s.