If that's not instant respect, I don't know what is.

We get the tourney a few years ago and the feeling is "We better do this right the first time or it'll be the only time."

Then the tourney comes and everything goes great, including the Chamber of Commerce weather.

A handful of weeks later, we get the 2009 Tournament. Outstanding!

This will probably cement OKC into at the least a KC/OKC rotation, if not a KC/OKC/Dallas combo.