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CAN THE HURRICANES HOOP IT UP IN ACC BASKETBALL COUNTRY?

          With the Hurricanes' home opener set for Friday at the
     $154M Raleigh Entertainment & Sports Arena, Chip Alexander
     of the Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER began a special week-long
     profile of the team's entry in the Raleigh area by wondering
     if the team will be able to sell hockey "in a sports
     landscape long dominated by ACC basketball."  The team has
     sold 6,000 season tickets, compared to 13,000 for the NC
     State Univ. men's basketball team.  Alexander, on the ticket
     sales at NC State: "That's a lot of entertainment dollars
     consumed.  It also says a lot about allegiances."  However,
     Hurricanes Owner Peter Karmanos said, "Raleigh is a big
     sports market.  We don't have any doubt that it'll be a
     fine, fine hockey market."  NC State Univ. AD Les Robinson:
     "The Hurricanes don't have the [fan] base ACC basketball
     does. ... In time, I think [the Hurricanes] will do very
     well.  We're going after two different clientele.  I don't
     think we'll overlap." Dean Jordan, President & CEO of Gale
     Force Holdings, the Hurricanes parent company, on the
     overlapping seasons: "I think we'll complement each other,
     not compete against each other. ... We just don't believe
     the level of our success or our attendance will be dictated
     by ACC basketball."  In other news, the Hurricanes have
     leased 56 of 58 luxury suites and the team has sold 36% of
     its season ticket sales via its newly designed Web site, but
     it has "found it difficult to make similar progress with
     media outlets."  The team's 13-station radio network still
     does not include Charlotte (NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/24).

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