College of Charleston is filling its limited-capacity arena during basketball season using cardboard cutouts of donors to a relief fund designed to help sustain athletic program operations during the pandemic.
The College will fill the seats left empty due to capacity restrictions with cardboard cutouts as basketball season gets underway at home this Saturday, following the lead of other professional sports (and Thursday’s American Dog Show, which had cutouts of dogs and cats).
A $75 donation gets you your cutout that will sit in the stands during basketball season and can be picked up at the end of the season.
Donations can be made at cougarathleticfund.com.
In an effort to maintain social distancing, the College is limiting attendance inside TD Arena to 1,530 fans, about 30% the arena’s capacity. Limited single-game tickets will be sold the week before each game.
Donations to the fund go to offset drops in sponsors, donations and ticket sale revenue, the fund’s website says.
The men’s and women’s basketball teams tipped off on the road on Wednesday. The men’s team was defeated by the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the women’s team was defeated by the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Both teams are back home this weekend, with the men playing Limestone College on Saturday and the women playing Wofford on Sunday.
Games are available to stream on FloSports.com for a fee.
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