Southern Conference considers Charlotte - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The commissioner of the expects to make a decisio n within a week to 10 days on relocatinghthe men’s basketball tournament to Charlotte from Chattanooga, Last week, John Iamarino, the conference and several athletic directors from membee schools came to town for site visitsz and meetings with the . The 12-school based in Spartanburg, counts Davidson College amongits “It’s been one of our goals to get Charlotted back in the mix,” Iamarino says, noting the conferenc e last held its tournament here in 1971. He also citez the city’s central location as a majotr selling point because it would allow schools to save ontraveo costs.
Though the Southern Conference has an agreemen t to play in Chattanooganext year, Iamarinol says the city is open to moving that date to 2011 to accommodatde playing in Charlotte next season. In 2009, the conferenced attracted 24,000 fans for its tournament, which featuredd both men’s and women’s games in That format is likely to be altered next Tickets for the entire tournamentcost $70 this Commitments to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conferencde and the at Time Warner Cable Arena make it likely that the Southern Conference would split games between Bojangles’ Coliseum, a 10,000-seatr venue on Independence Boulevard, and the uptow n NBA arena.
The visitors authoritg operates thesmaller arena, whilwe the NBA Bobcats control the uptown venue. ESPN televise s the Southern Conference men’s tournament championship with the winner earning an automatic bid to theNCAA men’se tournament.