The 2011 NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament begins in under a week. While most fans sitting court-side in the first 8 rows will shell out lots of cash for their tickets, you don’t have to. Currently, March Madness 2011 sweet sixteen tickets in that area are going for $800 on ticket reseller sites like Stubhub and Ticket Networks. You don’t even need a dime to snatch those prime seats, just two important qualities – patience and humility.
First of getting a cheap ticket for a March Madness game requires patience. Lower level tickets will go to booster club members of the hosting team as well as the college basketball teams coming to March Madness.The worst upper level tickets are sold at the same price to local fans. Since you probably don’t have access to the booster tickets, don’t buy tickets on the initial sale at the top like my friend did. The week prior to the game the price of nosebleed tickets will drop faster than LeBron’s approval rating did. The resale value of March Madness 2011 tickets will follow a free market rather than a communistic one the NCAA sold under.
By having patience, those nosebleed seats will drop to $50 or so the week of the game. Last year I went with my friend and his father to the March Madness West regional sweet sixteen. We watched Butler upset Syracuse from the upper level. With about 3 minutes left in the game we worked our way down during time outs to the lower level portal by the Syracuse basketball fans. All I had left to do was show ask the gracious exiting Syracuse basketball fans for their ticket stub. In no time we scored 5 lower level tickets to use for the next game between Kansas St. and Xavier. Three of those tickets were on the 8th row behind Xavier’s bench!
So my lesson learned with my trip out to visit my friend was neer waste money on front row tickets when all you have to do is wait for the final few minutes of the game which r always the most exciting, and go sweet talk people walking out throwing out their stubs.
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