We have now, what I am pretty sure, is an all time first since UNO moved into the Qwest Center, now the Centurylink Center.
Th "Clink" is curtained off for home games in the upper level on the side of the arena the benches are on, and, the upper level end of the arena with the goal that UNO attacks once per game.
For the first time since they began curtaining off those sections in the upper level, at least one of the curtains is coming down Saturday night. There was a time when they didn't curtain off the upper deck at all after UNO moved in there and, once they starting doing it, the only time they have had them down (all) has been for the three "Sell Out" this-or-that-team promotion these past three seasons.
That would mean that ticket sales for Saturday night have to be approaching the 12,000 mark. Or, to put it another way, maybe the 4th largest crowd in school history. We'll see.
As near as I recall, the only other time we got close to having to do this before was the Friday night game when the Fighting Sioux were here, the very first time they had ever come to Omaha and played us, last year. The next night, which normally would have been a bigger crowd than that, the Huskers played a night game at Texas A & M and the cretins that stayed home to watch that missed UNO shutting out ND 1-0 on a goal, literally, at the final horn.
Tickets are now for sale on Ticketmaster in the upper level on the other end of the arena. I find it sort of odd that they would not have opened up the other side, instead, since those are better seats, and, higher priced.
My guess is we'll be seeing a lot of maroon & gold this weekend.
