BOK Center Hard At Work Ahead Of NCAA Tournament

Eight teams from around the county will he playing here inside the BOK center next weekend... but first... it takes hours of hard work to put the court down... and prepare the entire arena. It is the madness...before the real madness. It takes dozens of p

Sunday, March 17th 2019, 7:54 pm

By: News On 6


Eight teams from around the county will he playing here inside the BOK center next weekend... but first... it takes hours of hard work to put the court down... and prepare the entire arena.

It is the madness...before the real madness.

It takes dozens of people to prepare an arena for an event like March Madness.

"You know next weekend there is a spot light on eight cities in America and we are one of them. When it comes to basketball everyone wants to tune into March Madness it's that kind of year," said Don Tomkalski, Co- Tournament Manager. 

Tomkalski has spent months preparing for the NCAA tournaments third trip to Tulsa.

The NCAA shipped the court to the BOK Center and now it is time to put everything together.

"Hey we've been doing this for a long time now. We've got a real good crew. Our crew has been together pretty much since day one when we came over here so that's a good thing, " said Kevin Jones, employee at the BOK Center. 

Jones tells me this court is different than the one they use for other games at the Arena.

He says they also have to refigure the seats around the court.

Jones says it takes a lot of hard work from a lot of people but this is an exciting time for Tulsans.

"When you look at Tulsa, people look at it as a small city but we have a lot of big shows that come here as well as concerts. And having March Madness here makes things even better."

Tomkalski says he has spent 90% of his time preparing for the tournament but he says this event brings more than just basketball to the city.

"Restaurants will be full, and night clubs, places in the evenings where you want to go out and get a cocktail or something, they are going to be full, it’s a win win."

 

 

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