SYRACUSE, NY – The Carrier Dome will host on Friday, October 14, the best Midnight Madness in its history.
The featured entertainment for Midnight Madness includes up-and-coming rapper Meek Mill, a Philadelphia native who records on the Maybach Music Group. Mill’s current single, “Tupac Back,” has been climbing the U.S. R&B and Rap charts. Russian Bar Trio, an acrobatic act as seen on the popular television show America’s Got Talent, is also scheduled to perform its death-defying feats at midcourt.
Syracuse fans are encouraged to dress in orange, break out the “Big Heads” and ignite “the Loud House.”
Midnight Madness will offer SU basketball fans the chance to see the 2011-12 editions of the men’s and women’s team for the first time this fall. Both programs are coming off 20-win campaigns and postseason appearances. Scrimmages and drills from the men's and women's basketball teams will take place as well as a dunk contest and other activities.
Coach Jim Boeheim heads into his 36th season at the helm of the nationally-ranked men’s program with returning starters Scoop Jardine, Kris Joseph, Baye Keita and Brandon Triche. The women’s team has its top two scorers and rebounders – Kayla Alexander and Iasia Hemingway -- back in the fold for Coach Quentin Hillsman.
Doors will open for Midnight Madness at 7:00 p.m. with the event scheduled to get underway at 8:00 p.m.
AmeriCU Credit Union’s Midnight Madness is free to the public, but requires a general-admission ticket limited to lower-bowl seating only. Tickets, at a limit of four per person while supplies last, will be available starting Wednesday, October 5, at the following locations:
Carrier Dome Box Office
Schine Student Center on campus starting at 9:00 a.m. (SU students with i.d.)
Tickets will be available at the following AmeriCU branches starting Thursday:
- 6303 Thompson Road, Syracuse
- 200 Walton Street, Syracuse
- 7474 Oswego Road, Liverpool
- 6414 State Route 31, Cicero
- 1916 Black River Blvd., Rome
- 231 Hill Road, Rome
- 224 North Genesee Street, Utica
- 4957 Commercial Drive, Yorkville
- 295 Grant Avenue, Auburn
- 326 E. State Street, Herkimer
- 10750 Enduring Freedom Drive, Fort Drum
- 20991 NYS Route 3, Watertown
- 7394 Utica Blvd., Lowville
- 280 Genesee Street, Route 5, Oneida
Free parking is available in the Stadium West lots at the Dome and at Manley Field House. A shuttle service will run from the Manley lots.