Consolidated NCAA Ticket & Travel Thread

[CaliHoya]

I know the Hoyas are FAR from guaranteed to get here, but I thought it would be helpful to start a thread to get New York / New Jersey area Hoyas thinking about getting tickets for the Regional Semifinals and Finals. I'm hoping we use the huge Georgetown network up here to get a homecourt advantage if we're lucky enough to make it to East Rutherford.

Does anyone know the best ways to look for tickets? I assume tickets are cheaper to lock into today than waiting until after the Round of 32? All help is greatly appreciated.

[DanMcQ]

Thread title changed - please post any and all questions about tickets for NCAA sessions here so we can limit board clutter.

No on-board direct solicitations with pricing will be allowed - please conduct any transactions offline through email or PM.

Thanks.

Further re-titled - please consolidate the "there is a room for $69 at the XYZ Motel in Raleigh" and "Candair has flights available" posts here too.

[pahoyafan1]

I am also looking for 2 tickets to the Regional Final (3/25). If anyone has info on how to attain these, please pm me. Lower level is desired (will pay over face).

[brooklynhoya]

Ditto. I'm looking to go both days. Cheapest tix I'm seeing are $350 apiece for both days in the 200 sections along the baseline (bleah).

[hoyatown5168]

I need one or two tickets to saturday's game in Winston-Salem. I won't be able to get to the thursday game but I badly would like to go saturday. Thanks.

[Gammo]

I have two tickets for the Thursday game that I need to sell. Email me if any Hoya fan is interested. I will be using the Saturday tickets if we are able to make it past Belmont. Gammo (still prowling the boards with stealth and regularity!) Post back if someone has trouble reaching me.

[pahoyafan1]

Anyone here familiar with Continental Arena seating?? I am looking at a few options online, but not sure which seats would be better.

[HoNYaSaxa]

I had a separate thread on using TicketReserve.com to buy or sell "Fan Forwards" before the mods moved it and suggested I reopen the issue in this thread:

"Fan Forwards" act like options, capable of being bought and sold by ticketreserve.com "market" participants. Basically, you pay money for an option (for example, $56 for a Club Level seat option to the Final Four Saturday night games, $90 for a Club Level seat option to the National Championship).

If the Hoyas get there, you have the right (and are obligated) to buy a ticket in that section for face value. The price of the option IS NOT credited to the cost of your ticket. This means that you pay $X price for the option on ticket reserve plus face value cost if we make the game. I believe that face value costs for Club Level seats are running between $95 and $110. Lower Level options and face values are slightly higher than the prices I've mentioned here.

If the Hoyas don't make it, you eat the price you paid for the option.

Not a bad deal if you have as much confidence in the Hoyas as I/most of us on this board do. Where else are you guaranteed the option to buy Final Four tickets at face? After buying both the option and a face value ticket, you'll spend less than $200.

If you (like me) are not a student -- and I'm not under the impression that HHC will have any more tickets than it can offer and sell to the highest level donors -- then the buy-in cost for the option thing is totally worth it.

See you in Atlanta! Hoya Saxa.

[RockawayHoya]

I checked out the TicketReserve site and didn't see the East Regionals anywhere. Are they no longer available?

I've also been searching for tickets for 3/23 and 3/25, and $350 for 200's is what I'm seeing as well. I'm also going to need at least 4, if not more. Anybody with some good suggestions besides the usual (StubHub, Craigslist, Ebay, etc.)? And would it make more sense to get them earlier than later, considering the large fan bases of the schools who are most likely to make it to E. Rutherford? This is the first time I've tried to get tix for an event like this, so any and all help is appreciated.

[HoNYaSaxa]

Rockaway:

Ticket Reserve only has the finals....

I sympathize with you on the East Rutherford ticket costs. They're sky high right now. They may come down following the first weekend, to the extent that losing teams' tix may enter the market then....Just a guess.

[HoyaDestroya02]

i have 4 tickets for tomorrow and 2 for saturday... let me know if anyone needs them (face value)

[hoyatown5168]

I need two tickets for saturday. I sent you a message, let me know if you still have them. Thanks.

[SirSaxa]

A major NYC Ticket broker told us he just had the greatest BET he's ever had. Why? Because GEORGETOWN is back!
He made a ton of money because all the Georgetown guys wanted tickets!
And they would pay whatever it took to get to the Fri and Sat night games.

The outlook for the East Regional at the Meadowlands is equally sanguine.

So, if you are trying to buy tickets -- this isn't really good news.
BUT, if you are looking at the state of the Program, its great news.
And if the Admin is looking at raising money for the Coach -- well, I think the answer is obvious. Along with raising $$ for the basketball program and for the University.

Amazing what a winning team can do for a school -- and for its alumni!

[pahoyafan1]

I just ordered 2 tickets for both sessions at Rutherford off EBAY. I got lower level (126) for about 1300 (for everything, 2 tick, 2 sess). I would have paid close to double for them off stubhub for both sessions. On Ebays home page, put East Rutherford in the search box and click on continental arena, then click on college basketball. There were about 20-30 different auctions and sales for Rutherford tickets, Just an option...

[hoyatown5168]

Please anyone, if you have one or two tickets to saturday's game I will be forever grateful.

Also how tough do you think it would be to get tickets outside the arena before the game? Thanks.

[HooHoya]

Anyone need a ticket? (This includes you, hoyatown5168.)

I ordered one from Stub Hub, then a gracious Hoya hooked me up with a great ticket. So I have one available, and I'd love to get a Hoya fan in that seat.

Email me at jbehan AT verizon DOT net if you are interested. I'll sell the thing for less than I paid at Stub Hub, just to get another Hoya fan in the arena.

[canissaxa]

Hey - on a last minute decision a friend and I are ready to drive to WS today. If anyone has a ticket to sell, call me at --edited to delete #--. Thank you!

[VictorSkyPage]

now that we can officially discuss Meadowlands tickets...

if any are available -- any at all.... please PM me, or post; I will pay whatever is necessary and I would love to acquire them from a Hoya, sit with some hoyas, and make Commodore/Cougar fans a little more frightened

[brooklynhoya]

Ditto- I made it to Minneapolis last year. This year, there's no way I'm going to miss this event so close by. Anybody with spare tickets, pm me please!

[theEDGEfactor]

same here if you no any site or if you have some tix...pm pleaz