HOOP HISTORIANS NEWS Committed to promoting goodwill through basketball Volume # 107 – May, 2017

ALLSTATE ARENA FAREWELL NCAA ANNOUNCES FUTURE HOOP HISTORIANS CHAMPIONSHIP SITES PHOTO GALLERY DePaul University has played their Send your pictures to: home games at the Allstate Arena The NCAA announced host sites for [email protected] for the past 36 years and a couple its mens’ basketball tournament of Hoop Historians have been there through 2022. for the duration. In the 515 games From the annual played there, Kevin McCann and First Four games in Ted Reineking have missed only Dayton, to the Final Four, 55 15 games collectively as members different cities will host games of the scorer’s table. That’s an during March Madness over the incredible 98.5% attendance rate! next five years. A complete listing Kevin worked all but four games of those locations can be found at: and Ted missed eleven games. www.hoophistorians.com/futuresites.htm

DePaul played its final home game at the Allstate Arena in March as the Blue Demons will move to the WHAT HAPPENS HERE ALL IN THE FAMILY: Hoop Historians new Wintrust Arena in November. STAYS HERE Dennis Mishko, Jr. and Dennis Mishko, Sr.

get ready to referee a game at Marywood Hoop Historian University in Scantron, Pennsylvania Tom Tallarito has continued an annual tradition. COMMITTEE MEMBERS WANTED Tom has gone to Las Vegas for 27 straight years to watch the first The Hoop Historians are looking for weekend of the NCAA basketball members to be on the following tournament. standing committees: Compliance, Membership, Public Affairs and Social Entertainment. EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY This is a great way for

LAST DANCE (above): The Scorer’s Table FOR THIS HOOP HISTORIAN members to give back crew takes one last picture at the last game to their organization. If played at the Allstate Arena in March Hoop Historian Kevin you are interested in

McCann was featured serving on a committee, contact in a segment on Good Executive Director Joe Spagnolo at: Day DePaul. Watch the video here [email protected] at: https://youtu.be/doEH4mcmS6I

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ABOVE: The new arena’s construction BASKETBALL starts to look ready to host basketball Ted Reineking says you can never have too many friends. We are looking to add friends to our group. Send us the names and email addresses of those who you think would be interested in following the adventures of our

group so we can put them on our e- ABOVE: That final game saw social media mailing list. Send your information MARCH 31 & APRIL 2 recognize the contributions of two Hoop to us at: [email protected] Historians and their years of service