Iowa Unveils New Table Seating Option At Carver Hawkeye Arena

The Univ. of Iowa unveiled a "new seating option" at Carver Hawkeye Arena this season called the Carver Terrace, which has "tables that seat about 100 people at the top of the stands behind the basket," according to Mark Emmert of the DES MOINES REGISTER. Wait staff will "serve food and beverages, but not alcohol for now, to those who buy either a two-seat or four-seat table." Iowa AD Gary Barta called it "a pilot project" to see how popular it is with fans. Season-ticket packages are being "sold for the tables at $1,500 a seat." Barta said that the goal is to "sell about half of the spots on a season-long basis and leave the rest for sale game-by-game." He added that he will "consider selling beer and wine at Carver Terrace in future years." The table seats will be "used for men's basketball games only for now, since the upper seats at CHA are typically curtained off for women's basketball" (DES MOINES REGISTER, 11/2).