Notre Dame Bookstore Basketball 2010
Campus Advertising for the Tournament
2002 Bookstore Tournament. Gettyimages.com
Depending on how seriously one takes the tournament, a participant may begin planning and getting ready for the tournament as early as the first few weeks of school in the Fall. Those students that play basketball on a regular basis at the rec centers Rolfs and the Rockne Memorial seem to start formulating which team they wish to play for as early as immediately after the tournament from the year before ends. These are the students who usually apply to be seeded as one of the top 32 teams, and will try to find the five best available players to compete with.
For the majority of the student population, bookstore basketball becomes a topic of conversation in the early part of the Spring semester when the weather finally starts to warm up. All around campus it is easy to identify that more and more people seem to come and play pick up basketball both on the bookstore courts and at the rec centers on campus as the weeks leading up to the tournament start to fade.
With the tournament starting in early April, the bookstore commissioners tend to spread the word out by late February in hopes to break a new record for registered teams every year. This years registration deadline was originally set for Friday March 5, but as with every year, it was extended in hopes that more teams might register that didn't get to at the last minute.
With over 650 teams participating every year in the last four years, it is easy to see that the commissioners have done a tremendous job of attracting attention from students/faculty/staff to each years tournament. Using the campus newspaper The Observer and numerous table triangles put on the dining hall tables and spread out throughout all tables in popular student buildings, the Bookstore tournament receives a lot of advertising. Articles in the Observer warn students that the deadline is fast approaching and tell the student body of the cause that Bookstore Basketball was created for. E mails are also sent out to the entire student population in hopes of reaching out to each and every individual Notre Dame community member.
Once the field is set and the seedings are all paired, it is time to begin the world's largest outdoor 5-on-5 basketball tournament.
For the majority of the student population, bookstore basketball becomes a topic of conversation in the early part of the Spring semester when the weather finally starts to warm up. All around campus it is easy to identify that more and more people seem to come and play pick up basketball both on the bookstore courts and at the rec centers on campus as the weeks leading up to the tournament start to fade.
With the tournament starting in early April, the bookstore commissioners tend to spread the word out by late February in hopes to break a new record for registered teams every year. This years registration deadline was originally set for Friday March 5, but as with every year, it was extended in hopes that more teams might register that didn't get to at the last minute.
With over 650 teams participating every year in the last four years, it is easy to see that the commissioners have done a tremendous job of attracting attention from students/faculty/staff to each years tournament. Using the campus newspaper The Observer and numerous table triangles put on the dining hall tables and spread out throughout all tables in popular student buildings, the Bookstore tournament receives a lot of advertising. Articles in the Observer warn students that the deadline is fast approaching and tell the student body of the cause that Bookstore Basketball was created for. E mails are also sent out to the entire student population in hopes of reaching out to each and every individual Notre Dame community member.
Once the field is set and the seedings are all paired, it is time to begin the world's largest outdoor 5-on-5 basketball tournament.
