{"id":697401,"date":"2026-04-04T07:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:11:13","slug":"a-new-england-furniture-store-will-refund-customers-if-both-uconn-teams-make-the-ncaa-title-games-troy-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697401\/","title":{"rendered":"A New England furniture store will refund customers if both UConn teams make the NCAA title games \u2013 Troy Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

By DAVE COLLINS<\/p>\n

College basketball players aren\u2019t the only ones poised to win big in this year\u2019s March Madness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A New England furniture chain is offering to reimburse customers for products purchased earlier this year if both the UConn<\/a> men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams reach the championship games.<\/p>\n

That means some 20,000 Jordan\u2019s Furniture customers could be fully repaid for $50 million worth of sales if the two teams win their Final Four games on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

For Brian Mazzilli of Plymouth, Massachusetts, that could mean a $3,800 refund for a living room sofa and coffee table. Not previously a college sports fan, he has declared himself an enthusiastic new follower of the Huskies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought the chances were pretty slim, but now we\u2019re pretty excited,\u201d Mazzilli said in the aftermath of the UConn men\u2019s stunning buzzer-beater win over Duke<\/a> in last weekend\u2019s Elite Eight. \u201cIt just didn\u2019t seem that both teams from one school making it to the finals \u2014 that seems kind of a long shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

When UConn\u2019s Braylon Mullins hit the winning, 35-foot shot to beat Duke, Mazzilli said he was jumping up and down like he did when the Patriots\u2019 Adam Vinatieri kicked the winning, last-second field goal against the Rams in the 2002 Super Bowl to give New England its first NFL title.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s isn\u2019t on the hook for the $50 million itself. It got insurance for the promotion like it did in 2007 when it offered a similar deal if the Boston Red Sox won the World Series \u2014 which they did. In that deal, more than 24,000 customers were reimbursed about $35 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want this to happen,\u201d Eliot Tatelman, the retired president of Jordan\u2019s who is still the face of the Massachusetts-based retailer in TV ads, said in a phone interview Thursday. \u201cWhether they win or lose, I got to pay for the insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tatelman said he came up with the UConn promotion idea while thinking of ways to increase the company\u2019s stature in Connecticut, where other furniture businesses have been around longer.<\/p>\n

The promotion was offered to customers who bought furniture, mattresses and accessories at Jordan\u2019s from Jan. 20 to Feb. 16 of this year, with some exceptions. The company will send out refund checks if both UConn teams make it to the championship games.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s, incorporated in 1928 in Waltham, Massachusetts, by Tatelman\u2019s grandfather, has eight retail locations in New England. The company was sold to Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway in 1999. It\u2019s known for entertainment attractions at its stores \u2014 including IMAX 3D movie theaters, a rope course and, in Reading, Massachusetts, depictions of Boston landmarks made of millions of jelly beans.<\/p>\n

The undefeated, No. 1-seeded UConn women take on South Carolina in the Final Four on Friday night, while the men\u2019s team \u2014 a No. 2 seed \u2014 plays Illinois on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DAVE COLLINS College basketball players aren\u2019t the only ones poised to win big in this year\u2019s March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,325,231,772,1544,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-697401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116345198595092406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}