Nikki McCray is in a hurry. She’s been the women’s basketball coach at Old DominionUniversity less than two years. And yet on Twitter, she asked for something as rare as a day without trucks rumbling down Hampton Boulevard.
She tweeted before ODU’s home opener against Norfolk State, urging fans to sell out the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
Mind you, the ODU women have never sold out the 8,400-seat arena without busloads of screaming Norfolk school children on Education Day (one of my favorite days, by the way).
But she’s trying to bring ODU back to where it was a decade ago, a relevant team nationally with a solid fan following.