There\u2019s no doubt that one of the biggest questions in terms of the Connecticut Sun franchise is where they are going to be playing next season. <\/p>\n
There have been several bids<\/a> from across the country, including Houston, Boston, and Hartford. While that question remains unanswered, the team\u2019s latest<\/a> schedule release may hint at potential locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n A UConn Reunion<\/p>\n The Sun is heading to where the UConn Huskies have brought in thousands of fans at a time across the state: Hartford, Connecticut<\/a>. Despite Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, being the Sun\u2019s current home, this move can give the team the crowd they deserve.\u00a0<\/p>\n In reality, Uncansville, being neither a city nor particularly accessible, drives away potential fans. Simply moving a couple of games 30 minutes to Hartford, the state capital, and a more accessible city, would fill more seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n Connecticut\u2019s Governor Ned Lamont mentioned that the newly renovated PeoplesBank Arena, formerly known as the XL Center, could host \u201ca couple\u201d<\/a> games this season. This is due to the changes made to the arena itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n One of the two games scheduled in Hartford is likely to draw a large audience. On Thursday<\/a>, July 2nd, the Sun is set to host Paige Bueckers<\/a> and the Dallas Wings in the same arena that Bueckers is no stranger to.\u00a0<\/p>\n Beloved by Connecticut fans and playing in an arena that is almost double<\/a> the size of Mohegan Sun, this will surely bring out an audience. With there being some suspicion<\/a> of the Wings taking UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd<\/a> as the number one pick in the upcoming WNBA draft, there could be several Huskies being celebrated that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just a couple of games could be what the Sun needs to stay in Connecticut.\u00a0<\/p>\n Back to TD Garden<\/p>\n For the third year in a row, the Sun will play in Boston. Specifically, they will be playing at the Celtics\u2019 home arena, TD Garden. The game will be held on August 18th<\/a> against the Los Angeles Sparks. The Los Angeles Sparks, along with the Wings, will be the other team playing the Sun in Hartford.\u00a0<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Over the past two years, playing in Boston has enabled the Sun to draw sold-out crowds.\u00a0<\/p>\n Playing in TD Garden proves what the Sun has known all along. It\u2019s not the fans that are the issue. When playing in Boston, a major city known as \u201cTitle Town\u201d, there is much larger accessibility for fans to watch women\u2019s basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n Giving the Sun the chance to play in front of much larger audiences furthers the argument that they need to find a new location as soon as possible. The sold-out nights in these bigger arenas are what drive people to say that everyone watches women\u2019s sports, not in an arena with fewer than 10,000 seats.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Playing in these arenas is a key strategy for relocation. It is an amazing opportunity to drive a bigger audience to women\u2019s basketball and women\u2019s sports altogether.\u00a0<\/p>\n The post Do the Connecticut Sun\u2019s Unique Game Locations Signal an Exit?<\/a> appeared first on The Lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no doubt that one of the biggest questions in terms of the Connecticut Sun franchise is where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[13034,2000,4384,2834,8856,3029,63868,2833,99,2524,31478,56612,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-459027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-celtics","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-connecticut-sun","11":"tag-dallas-wings","12":"tag-hartford","13":"tag-los-angeles-sparks","14":"tag-mohegan-sun","15":"tag-paige-bueckers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-the-sun","18":"tag-uconn-huskies","19":"tag-uncasville","20":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}