Tickets for tomorrow OKC

[Fitz]

Any idea if tickets are hard to come by for the game tomorrow? Thinking about taking the family up in the morning. Also

Thanks!

 

[LonghornGirlie]

Tickets are never hard to come by during the Big XII tourney. Bricktown is a big park and even for the championship game it will be nowhere near full.

 

[davert]

See the article in the AAS saying it is time to move the tournament to the Dell Diamond. Attendance in OKC has been atrocious. You will be able to sit wherever you want.

 

[sua sponte]

If OU isn't in it, buy a GA and sit in one of the 10,000 empty seats
If OU is playing , there will only be 5000 empties

 

[GemStateJim]

I wonder who'll represent the other half of the bracket tomorrow. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[Pericles]

If you're a real college baseball fan and just want to see a lot of quality college baseball in a concentrated period time, the tourney is a great venue for that. If you're hung up on worrying about whether it has much impact on NCAA seeding, then it's probably not for you.

The trick for the entire tournament is to buy GA tickets. There has never been a Big XII tournament game in OKC (and I think we've been to all of them except maybe the first couple) where we could not sit in a reserved seat (with a GA purchase). And there was only one game in all the time the tourney has been in OKC when we had to move to upper deck reserved seats. It was the same with the larger park in Arlington.

It's quite true that attendance is atrocious at the tourney. The two years it was in Arlington, the attendance was 150,000 and 125,000. It averages about 75,000 - 80,000 in OKC.

The advantages of the tournament being here are the availability of hotels; relatively inexpensive tickets ($13 for GA) -- and half of those for two-game sessions; parking that used to be free for $5 now (they put up "No Parking" signs all around that area where there used to be early arrival street parking; and the availability of all sorts of restaurants and bars within blocks of the stadium.

But with all those advantages, I do hope they move it to somewhere that the population base can consistently get attendance up over 100,000. It's pathetic that the Big XII puts it's tourney in a small-populated state when there's much more population in a major metropolitan area just three hours to the south. Frisco is probably the ideal spot to achieve that change.

I have no idea if it's true, but a local here said yesterday that the NCAA actually makes more money in OKC than they did in Arlington due to the cost of leasing that major league stadium versus the minor league one in OKC. Also, apparently OKC (and maybe the Chamber) chip in some subsidy money for the tourney. I have no idea if Arlington did either of those.

In any case, time to move this thing to where the fans are.