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rochclone said:
The bottom line is that there were no less than 50-60 tickets for sale on this website in the week leading up to the tournament. Most of the time people were asking for $300-$400 per all-session ticket for Uppers and $500-$600 for lower all-session tickets. People elected or were given bad advice and decided to scoff at those prices. Well sometimes when you play with fire people get burned.

Perhaps this year will be a lesson to those that say you can always pick up tickets for face value a few minutes before tip. It is more entertaining to hear people complain about ticket prices but then pay $23 for a pitcher of beer.
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I agree but buying an all-session pass comes with risk too, especially if ISU and KU get knocked out early.
 
Exactly the whole process is not without risk. That is why you either pay for the all-session and commit to watching the best bball conference tournament in the country or take a chance on Kansas getting knocked off. But if you take the risk then just don't complain about the ticket prices. Some people seem to constantly be looking a hand out and that grows tiring. I know plenty of $5k donors that were in the Upper level all weekend. If you want lower level seats you are going to need to pay for them.
 
Those same scalpers got burned bad session 1 and 2. Session 1 always does but the ku session was going for under half face value. Session 1 you can barely give away.
 
This thread drives me nuts. Session 1 you threw in the garbage. Session 2 was a 20 dollar ticket at game time. Session 3 was a 30 dollar ticket at game time. This was the ISU session vs Texas. Friday night is the toughest ticket year in and year out. Always 150+ to get in if KU and ISU won on Thursday. The championship was ISU KU and 15 minutes before tip you could get lowers at 150 each. Face value was 100. So what are we all ******** about.
 
CJ4IOWASTATE said:
This thread drives me nuts. Session 1 you threw in the garbage. Session 2 was a 20 dollar ticket at game time. Session 3 was a 30 dollar ticket at game time. This was the ISU session vs Texas. Friday night is the toughest ticket year in and year out. Always 150+ to get in if KU and ISU won on Thursday. The championship was ISU KU and 15 minutes before tip you could get lowers at 150 each. Face value was 100. So what are we all ******** about.
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I got my lower bowl ticket for Saturday's game at face value ($100) right in front of the Sprint Center!
 
I had great seats in lower level for the tourney behind the ISU bench. Sold sessions 1 and 2 as a package for 400 per ticket. It helped balance out the high cost of the tournament. If you want good tickets ahead of time it will cost you some $. After that it is 50/50 with whether or not prices will fall depending entirely on Kansas and Iowa State. Those 2 teams drive the market plain and simple. People need to just enjoy that we are in that equation and quit complaining.
If we suck, tickets are cheap, we don't want that either!
 
CJ4IOWASTATE said:
This thread drives me nuts. Session 1 you threw in the garbage. Session 2 was a 20 dollar ticket at game time. Session 3 was a 30 dollar ticket at game time. This was the ISU session vs Texas. Friday night is the toughest ticket year in and year out. Always 150+ to get in if KU and ISU won on Thursday. The championship was ISU KU and 15 minutes before tip you could get lowers at 150 each. Face value was 100. So what are we all ******** about.
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Were you there? I didn't see you, but you are spot-on with your description above.
 
BTW, most of the "unemployed black dudes" were wearing what seemed to be licenses to sell tickets in KC. I call that "employment."
 
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