For years, Wood Selig held out. The Old Dominion athletic director refused to allow his men's basketball team to go on the road for "guarantee games."
The Ted Constant Center is a splendid place to play basketball, ODU has a devoted fan following and the Monarchs have a history that warrants ACC or SEC teams coming to Norfolk.
But none has in recent years and the lack of Power 5 teams on ODU's schedule was hurting the Monarchs postseason aspirations.
So Selig reluctantly agreed to allow coach Jeff Jones to play a guarantee game at Syracuse.