Once again, Kentucky fans have demonstrated their insatiable appetite for basketball. All tickets to the 2012 Big Blue Madness were snapped up in the first 35 minutes of availability Saturday morning.
Thousands of fans were present at UK’s Memorial Coliseum ticket office Saturday at 7 a.m. when the distribution of free tickets began. Others obtained their tickets via the school’s Website, UKathletics.com and Ticketmaster.com.
Despite the fact that fans were limited to four tickets per person at UK’s Memorial Coliseum ticket office and four per household online, this year’s Big Blue Madness event sold out in 35 minutes.
Big Blue Madness, the first practice opportunity for Kentucky’s 2012-13 men’s and women’s basketball teams, is Friday, Oct.12. Times and broadcast info will be released at a later date.
This will be the eighth time Madness has been held at Rupp Arena.
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Not trying to change subject, there’s an interesting story on CBS sports .com that Greg Doyle speaks the truth why Duke will get away with there recent player got benefits.
saw that and knew Duke would get away
Dook can and will get out of this very easily. First, they can prove that “any student” would be afforded the same opportunity at that store to get credit. Of course, that student will/would be the daughter/son of a Dr, Lawyer, CEO, etc. That’s one way…
Second. Somehow that “debt” will disappear and/or the store owner will be paid handsomely to keep his/her mouth shut. The “player” has already said he will not speak. The store owner said he will not speak. So…good luck NCAA with that “case”.
As for the article. 35 minutes? Slackers.
I started hitting the “Refresh” button at 6:58. At 7:00, when the screen finally appeared to let you order, I entered the info and pressed “Send”. It was already too late. I was locked out and never could get through. I tried for a half hour and kept getting the screen saying there were no tickets available.
The real joke here is all the “fans” who are selling their tickets on ebay for outrageous amounts of money. I’m all for free enterprise and capitalism, but this is ridiculous. I know that I could camp out, if I wanted to be guaranteed tickets, but it still doesn’t make it right that some PUKE or Loserville fan can jump online, jam the system up and get tickets to sell for $800. I was glad to see that StubHub no longer allows them to be sold on their site. If all the other outlets would do the same, honest fans might actually have a chance to get them.
This will be the first year, under Cal, where I don’t get to attend Big Blue Madness or the Blue White Scrimmage (will be out of town for that one). I will really miss being a part of watching our new guys kick off the season.
Wow Jim. That is sad indeed