CIAA Tournament Draws Thousands of Fans From Throughout the United States
It’s understood that the CIAA Basketball Tournament has the tenure, the executive organization and the marketing savvy to be an annual social boon for the City of Charlotte and the State of North Carolina. But it continues to beg the question:
Why can’t the other HBCU conferences even come close to having this kind of reach with black college basketball fans?
Vic Spencer is traveling over 3,000 miles just to attend the CIAA tournament.
He’s flying from Sacramento, Calif., to Raleigh, then driving to Charlotte.
Greg Iyamah, who has driven to the tournament from Maryland the last two years, chose to fly to Charlotte this year from New York.
And Charles Holt is making the nine-hour drive from Philadelphia to make an appearance at his first tournament.
“This is the perfect getaway for February,” said Iyamah, a 2002 graduate of Bowie State University in Maryland. “The whole weekend is probably one of the most fun weekends and the most anticipated trip for us in the year. Even my boss comes and she didn’t even go to a CIAA school.”
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