IT HELPS to have a good memory if you want to really appreciate the astonishing current popularity of University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s basketball.
As a former member of what was once called the “Faithful 5,000,” it is mind-bending to think that this past summer, the UW athletic department offered 48 courtside seats at the Kohl Center at $10,000 a year per seat – and sold them out prior to this Friday’s exhibition home opener against UW-Stout.
Those 48 seat holders are in what is now called the “Courtside Club,” and they have the added pleasure of knowing they have displaced newspaper writers, who were kicked upstairs under the new arrangement.