Tickets for Thursday's Game
I was hoping that the Michigan game would be the later game on Thursday in K.C. so I could just buy someone's ticket off of them when they walk out but since our game is earlier I don't know how to go about buying the Michigan portion of Thursday's session. Any idea how to approach this? Thanks!
March 21st, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
Always good for extra cash.
March 21st, 2017 at 11:36 AM ^
March 21st, 2017 at 11:51 AM ^
March 21st, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
seems pretty clear. Just pick random Kansas fans off or Facebook or Twitter and send them all of your credit card information sight unseen and ask them for their tickets.
Is there some kind of issue I am not seeing here?
March 21st, 2017 at 11:45 AM ^
The ticket is valid for both games but you can't leave and re-enter. What I did for the games in Indy was buy a upperdeck ticket for the Michigan game and then went to the Michigan parent section and asked them for their tickets. I got to sit in the 10th row for the Kentucky Wichita State game.
March 21st, 2017 at 11:52 AM ^
March 21st, 2017 at 12:09 PM ^
You could buy a ticket than and sell it after you leave to recoup some of your money.
March 21st, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
March 21st, 2017 at 12:00 PM ^
I am not going this year, but I have been to a few years of NCAA tournament games. As AliWeezy said, there is typically no Re-entry if you leave. So this idea wouldn't work. You have to buy the ticket for both games!
March 21st, 2017 at 12:02 PM ^
March 21st, 2017 at 12:16 PM ^
I spent a ton to for the Sweet 16 UM/Kansas game in Dallas. The Eilite Eight game vs Florida cost me $20 to park and $8 a ticket to sit about twenty rows up from the court.
Yeah - our game will have thousands of Kansas fans arriving for the 2nd half and sitting there silent texting their friends.
March 21st, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
I've got 2 extra tickets to the Thursday session if you are interested, though I can't give that much of a deal, as I paid just above face value for them.
March 21st, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
Don't have them in front of me here, but I believe face value was $150. And I'm definitely trying to sell them as a pair.
Are they in the Michigan section, wherever that may be?
How do you know where the "Michigan Section" is in tournaments?
In the BTT, I had no idea. I got lucky and wound up near the Michigan band and near the same basket as the Michigan bench. I actually thought I was in the Wisc or neutral at best section.
When you get tickets from the Alumni Association or the Athletic Dept, you know they'll be in the "Michigan Section". If you use a ticket exchange, you're on your own.
March 21st, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^
March 21st, 2017 at 12:25 PM ^
going for 220-300. The KU fans have run up the prices on our game. Oh well, I'll just have to watch at home, even though I live just an hour drive away, and wish I could go cheer on the team.
March 21st, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^
My advice - go to KC and see if prices fall at the last minute. If they do, you buy the cheapest seat in the arena and then try to move to one of the seats in lower level that are still empty because of late arriving Kansas fans. If prices don't fall, watch game in bar near arena.
Does anyone know where the travelling party is staying?
I've been trying to gather data for a Ticket Watch this week but it's hard to gauge this one because as you said the KU fans are setting the market and speculators are all over it.
The tradeout doesn't work in a way that would benefit ticket sharing: a ticket is for one entry and both games. I advise buying a really shitty ticket then sitting in one of the empty seats of a KU/Purdue fan.
The Indy game tickets were sitting at about $130 and moving at under that but there were still a hundred on our partner's site in big groups so speculators didn't sell out. That means there were tickets for cheaper to be had on the ground, but the market didn't translate to online.
Asking parents for their tickets won't work this time--I heard from a parent of a player that their seats are only good for their segment then the other parents will get their seats. This is also true for media, by the way, so if someone wants to give Ace and Dressler (the photog covering this game) their tickets for the other session I'm sure they'd appreciate it.