Arch Madness Seating

[Cdizzle]

all-session tickets, through 2/25



Wichita State – 2,449

Illinois State – 525

Indiana State – 500

UNI – 374

Bradley – 235

Drake – 225

Evansville – 225

Loyola – 225

Missouri State – 225

Southern Illinois – 225

TOTAL: 5,208

WSU: 2,449
Rest of Valley: 2759

Pathetic

And 2449 is still disappointing. I thought I read we sold out our allotment. There will probably be another 2500 Shocker fans there that didn't buy through WSU.

When half the conference can't sell the minimum you're getting dangerously close to on-campus sites.

Good thing we added Loyola! I can just see all that Chicago money flowing into the league. Really nice to see two of the closer schools, both not in Thursday games, selling at least some of the tickets they had to buy from the league! If we do go to on-campus sites, I vote we start with these 3 schools to try to bolster their support of the event! Hooray, Valley-thinking.

[MVCfans]

These are the numbers I found for last year:

In all, 7,129 have been sold by the instituions themselves — not far from the high of 8,601 sold in 2008. Adding in tickets for tournament sponsors and student seating areas, the Scottrade Center’s 10,000-seat lower bowl is sold out.

Not including Ticketmaster/Scottrade Center sales:
Bradley — 150
Creighton — 4,038
Drake — 150
Evansville — 200
Illinois State — 400
Indiana State — 150
Missouri State — 150
Northern Iowa — 410
Southern Illinois — 300
Wichita State — 1,181

[AndShock]

These are the numbers I found for last year:

In all, 7,129 have been sold by the instituions themselves — not far from the high of 8,601 sold in 2008. Adding in tickets for tournament sponsors and student seating areas, the Scottrade Center’s 10,000-seat lower bowl is sold out.

Not including Ticketmaster/Scottrade Center sales:
Bradley — 150
Creighton — 4,038
Drake — 150
Evansville — 200
Illinois State — 400
Indiana State — 150
Missouri State — 150
Northern Iowa — 410
Southern Illinois — 300
Wichita State — 1,181

So basically they upped the minimums to offset Creighton. That's a great way to create financial stability. Force the schools to pay money for tickets out of their own pockets.

[PantherSigEp]

If I were going down to STL I wouldn't buy the all session tix. You can get better deals when you go down there and purchase passes off of the Thursday night losers instead. Hard to completely gauge fan presence based on pre-sales. I'm sure it's fairly accurate but you can bet there will be closer to 500-600+ Panther fans there. Not great given our disappointing year but I have a hard time believing it'd be less than 400

[rlh04d]

These are the numbers I found for last year:

In all, 7,129 have been sold by the instituions themselves — not far from the high of 8,601 sold in 2008. Adding in tickets for tournament sponsors and student seating areas, the Scottrade Center’s 10,000-seat lower bowl is sold out.

Not including Ticketmaster/Scottrade Center sales:
Bradley — 150
Creighton — 4,038
Drake — 150
Evansville — 200
Illinois State — 400
Indiana State — 150
Missouri State — 150
Northern Iowa — 410
Southern Illinois — 300
Wichita State — 1,181

So basically they upped the minimums to offset Creighton. That's a great way to create financial stability. Force the schools to pay money for tickets out of their own pockets.

I could care less about their financial stability. Force the Indiana/Illinois conference to spend some of the money they're saving by busing to most of their games. Or that they're getting from WSU's NCAA tournament shares.

[PantherSigEp]

I could care less about their financial stability. Force the Indiana/Illinois conference to spend some of the money they're saving by busing to most of their games. Or that they're getting from WSU's NCAA tournament shares.

This is a pretty good point. The MVC is not at fault here. You know how you avoid paying out of your pocket? You sell the minimum amount of tickets which has been known about for some time.

Although to be clear, are these including single game tickets or all-session passes. I may have missed that being mentioned and I apologize. Again there are much better deals out there than the passes

[bigdawg]

Disappointing for so many schools to essentially not even give a crap. This hits the MVC pocket book so you have to assume Elgin is worried. What happens next year if WSU fans but fewer tickets? Slippery slope I'm afraid.

[Snaggletooth]

These are the numbers I found for last year:

In all, 7,129 have been sold by the instituions themselves — not far from the high of 8,601 sold in 2008. Adding in tickets for tournament sponsors and student seating areas, the Scottrade Center’s 10,000-seat lower bowl is sold out.

Not including Ticketmaster/Scottrade Center sales:
Bradley — 150
Creighton — 4,038
Drake — 150
Evansville — 200
Illinois State — 400
Indiana State — 150
Missouri State — 150
Northern Iowa — 410
Southern Illinois — 300
Wichita State — 1,181

So basically they upped the minimums to offset Creighton. That's a great way to create financial stability. Force the schools to pay money for tickets out of their own pockets.

number I'm hearing is WSU sold 3,000+ tickets, so WSU made up for a substantial amount of the CU tickets.

[Bear4Life]

I could care less about their financial stability. Force the Indiana/Illinois conference to spend some of the money they're saving by busing to most of their games. Or that they're getting from WSU's NCAA tournament shares.

This is a pretty good point. The MVC is not at fault here. You know how you avoid paying out of your pocket? You sell the minimum amount of tickets which has been known about for some time.

Although to be clear, are these including single game tickets or all-session passes. I may have missed that being mentioned and I apologize. Again there are much better deals out there than the passes

These are all session pass numbers (not single game)...I have gone 22 straight years and never bought all-session. As an MSU fan it's a fairly quick trip...If I can find some cheap, great. If not, I buy at the box office or from the team. Sometimes I go to sessions we are not in, but most of the time I do not, so don't feel the need to buy all session...And I think a lot of ours fans feel the same way.

And I love the Valley (watch several non-MSU MVC games throughout the year), but during the tourney I will usually go to a bar and watch those games from there.