RALEIGH, N.C.– It’s about 15 minutes until the Raleigh Regional Final between the Terrapin women’s basketball team and Louisville tips off at the RBC Center, and there are still plenty of great seats available.
It’s difficult to judge with fans of both teams wearing red, but estimating based on the noise level and looking a little more closely at people’s shirts, I would guess between 80 and 90 percent of the couple thousand fans that are here are supporting the Terps.
One section of Terp fans is holding up what we’ll call “Brenda Faces” and waving them around. It’s a cool idea, but a little strange to see so many black and white copies of coach Brenda Frese’s face.
In another rough estimation of the size of the crowd, I’d say there’s about a tenth of the number of fans that were here when the Terrapin men’s basketball team played in this arena against N.C. State about four weeks ago.
It’s extremely quiet in the arena, and the atmosphere certainly doesn’t fit the magnitude of the game.
Nevertheless, it should be a good one.