NCAA tickets at the BC

[mu_hilltopper]

I can't recall if it was the last time, or two times ago .. I bought tickets for NCAAs thru MU at the BC, I think the max was 8.  I figured I'd just have them, sell them to friends who wanted to go.

Turned out, no one wanted them, including me .. eventually, I sold them to a ticket broker .. and even though UW was playing the the BC, I only got face value, which surprised me.  Why?   The secondary market is flush with these tickets.  There just aren't 19,000 fans who want to see all these games at one arena, so the tickets are quickly sloshing around with scalpers because so many fans are going home quickly.

In short .. I'll never buy those tickets again.  No need.

[TJ]

$500 for two tickets is a heck of a deposit that could be spent on a road trip to STL or NYC for the BET. Or I could just spend it on hookers and cocaine.

It's 2 tickets for 6 total games.  It's not like you're spending $250 for just one game.

I don't know what else to tell ya... It's a great weekend of basketball.  I think it's definitely worth going to the games.

[TJ]

I can't recall if it was the last time, or two times ago .. I bought tickets for NCAAs thru MU at the BC, I think the max was 8.  I figured I'd just have them, sell them to friends who wanted to go.

Turned out, no one wanted them, including me .. eventually, I sold them to a ticket broker .. and even though UW was playing the the BC, I only got face value, which surprised me.  Why?   The secondary market is flush with these tickets.  There just aren't 19,000 fans who want to see all these games at one arena, so the tickets are quickly sloshing around with scalpers because so many fans are going home quickly.

In short .. I'll never buy those tickets again.  No need.

I wouldn't buy them to sell them.  It's not a good investment at all.  But if you want to go, it's definitely a good time.

[Litehouse]

Believe they were.  But, thats irrelevant.  It comes down to playing 3 or less games in the venue.

St. Joe's was the host that year.  It's both venue and host.
http://www.sjuhawks.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031509aab.html

[bradley center bat]

Correct, MU can't play at the BC for 2 reasons:
1) We're the host.
2) We play over a certain number of our home games there. (don't know the cut-off, but I believe it's 3)

If the Horizon league hosted the games at the BC, we still couldn't play there.

100% correct!

[Abode4life]

I can't recall if it was the last time, or two times ago .. I bought tickets for NCAAs thru MU at the BC, I think the max was 8.  I figured I'd just have them, sell them to friends who wanted to go.

Turned out, no one wanted them, including me .. eventually, I sold them to a ticket broker .. and even though UW was playing the the BC, I only got face value, which surprised me.  Why?   The secondary market is flush with these tickets.  There just aren't 19,000 fans who want to see all these games at one arena, so the tickets are quickly sloshing around with scalpers because so many fans are going home quickly.

In short .. I'll never buy those tickets again.  No need.

Thats surprising that UW was playing.  Where were the seats?  Last time UW played at the BC in the tourney I got well over face value and I just went through Stub Hub.

[BrewCity83]

I got well over face for the UW games at the BC last time too.  In fact, it was enough to pay for my other 2 sessions, so I got to go for free.

[bradley center bat]

1992, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2009 ncaa tourney has always sold out at the Bradley Center. I wish Milwaukee would hold more often.

[TJ]

1992, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2009 ncaa tourney has always sold out at the Bradley Center. I wish Milwaukee would hold more often.

Every 4-5 years is a pretty good frequency.  I was there in 2004 & 2009.  Wisconsin losing to Pitt was a great game, made even better by watching all the sad red faces walking out of the BC.

[wardle2wade]

Every 4-5 years is a pretty good frequency.  I was there in 2004 & 2009.  Wisconsin losing to Pitt was a great game, made even better by watching all the sad red faces walking out of the BC.

The Bradley Center hosted 2010.

[TJ]

The Bradley Center hosted 2010.

Whatever, I was at the last two.  Tell the poster before me who I lazily trusted to have written the correct dates.