2011 NCAA Tournament in Tulsa

[dioscorides]

just in case there are some basketball fans on the forum that missed this:

Tickets on sale today for 2011 NCAA Tournament in Tulsa

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=234&articleid=20100608_234_0_Aftera965884

By BILL HAISTEN World Sports Writer
Published: 6/8/2010  6:00 AM
Last Modified: 6/8/2010  10:11 AM

After a delay of several weeks, tickets for Tulsa's 2011 NCAA Tournament men's basketball sub-regional become available on Tuesday.

Regardless of the seat location (but not including suite seats or club seats), there is one price – $237 – for an all-session ticket. It doesn't matter whether your seat is courtside or in the upper level of the BOK Center. It's a $237 ticket.

The general public gets access to March Madness tickets at 10 a.m. and only online at tulsaworld.com/NCAAtickets. No tickets will be sold by the BOK Center, either through its box office or website.

The holder of an all-session ticket gets access to each of the six games. Four first-round games (two during the day and two at night) are set for Friday, March 18. Two second-round games are scheduled for Sunday, March 20.

Tulsa hosts an NCAA sub-regional for the first time since 1985, when the games were played at Oral Roberts University's Mabee Center.

For basketball, the BOK Center has a seating capacity of 17,839.

Jeff Nickler, the BOK Center's booking and special events manager, estimates that for NCAA games played in Tulsa, slightly more
than 12,000 tickets were made available to the public. The NCAA reserves a number of tickets for allotment to participating schools.

The sale of tickets for NCAA games at each of the other sub-regional sites – Tampa, Fla.; Washington, D.C.; Denver; Tucson, Ariz.; Clevel and, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; and Chicago – began weeks ago. The Tulsa sale was delayed as NCAA and BOK Center officials resolved issues r elated to pre-existing ticket relationships.

"The NCAA has an exclusive ticketing relationship with Ticketmaster," explained Mike Dodson, executive director of the Tulsa Sports Commission. "The BOK Center is the only site, of the first- and second-round sites, that is a Tickets.com venue.

"We had to navigate through a new understanding with Ticketmaster and Tickets.com. . . . It took us a while to get through that, but now we're ready to move on and host a great tournament for the city of Tulsa."

2011 NCAA Tournament tickets
Men's basketball, first- and second-round games.

March 18 and 20 (Friday and Sunday). BOK Center, Tulsa.

All-session tickets: $237. Price does not apply to premium seats.

Price applies to all basic seats in the upper and lower levels.

As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, tickets are available at tulsaworld.com/NCAAtickets

All ticket sales are conducted online.

Ticketmaster customer service: 1-877-NCAA-TIX (877-622-2849).

Event is co-hosted by the Tulsa Sports Commission and the University of Tulsa.

By BILL HAISTEN World Sports Writer

[dioscorides]

out of curiosity, i went back to ticketmaster to see how sales are going.  i was a little worried about this selling well after going the conference usa tournament and seeing empty seats everywhere.  it looks like the lower bowl is sold out (i didn't check for single tickets though).  the best available for 2 tickets is sec 301 right now.  i think that isn't too bad since the tournament is still nine months away and the teams playing are unknown.  as long as a couple of teams chosen for the tulsa site are close by, i would think tickets are going to end up selling very well.