Eric curry basketball referee

In April of Eric Curry hopes to walk from his downtown condo to U.S. Bank Stadium and fulfill a dream. The NCAA Men’s Final Four will be played in Minneapolis on April 6 and 8, and Curry will be wrapping up 22 years as a college basketball referee.

Curry, 53, told Sports Headliners his goal is to work on the biggest college basketball stage in his hometown.

“I would be lying to you if I said it wasn’t,” he said this week at Sun Country Airlines’ corporate offices in Eagan, where he is an executive vice president for customer experience and sales.

Curry flew over , miles from November through March officiating college games, mostly out West but also in the Big Ten Conference.

He worked more than 60 games including his first NCAA Sweet 16 Tournament. It was a year that Curry describes as his best for high profile games that also included earlier rounds of NCAA Tournament games and before that the Mountain West Conference title game.

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