Posts Tagged ‘East Regional tickets’

We’re not all sports-theater-concert-tickets all the time. For example, we heard there was some debate in Washington and around the country about health care reform legislation. We heard, proponents say it will insure 30+ million more people and opponents call it a government takeover of 1/6 of the U.S. economy, but how just how do politics stack up to major sporting events?

Sure, we here at FanSnap can tell you who is searching for what tickets, which events are hot and how to find great ticket values, but for this question, we had to turn to Google. Hey Google, how many people are searching for the term “health care bill” vs how many people are searching for “NCAA Tournament”?

Yes, we know there were some major announcements made on the health care debate and NCAA Regionals don’t start up again until tomorrow, but still, how do they compare?

source: google.com

The red line is interest over time in “NCAA Tournament.” The spike on March 14 is from people searching for NCAA brackets just after the selection Sunday telecast (do people still say telecast?)… err TV show when the NCAA Tournament teams were announced. The second red spike occurred when the NCAA Round 1 & 2 games were played.

The blue line represents interest in “Health Care Bill.” Interest went up when it was announced that it would be passed.

Will we see another spike for the NCAA Regionals  and Final Four? We think so. Will interest in “Health Care Bill” continue up at the same pace? It will be interesting to see.

If you landed on this post and were hoping to bone up on the recently passed Health Care legislation, check out the linked coverage on healthcare-economist.com. They link to a wide variety of perspectives.

If you were looking for NCAA Tournament tickets, you’re in luck. FanSnap is a ticket search engine. Fans can find tickets from sites across the web here.

To read more on the NCAA Tournament and Final Four tickets, check out these posts:

• Fans Find Best Values on Final Four Tickets with FanSnap
• East Regionals Tickets Hottest of NCAA Tournament
• NCAA Tournament Tickets by the Bracket

The East Regionals for the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 rounds are the hottest NCAA Tournament tickets. Tickets in Syracuse have been among the higher priced ticket of any region since Selection Sunday when the NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed. Average prices on the ticket market had been edging slightly down during the first two rounds last week until Cornell upset both Temple and Wisconsin — winning the first Sweet 16 berth for a Ivy League school in more than a decade.

Washington vs West Virginia & Kentucky vs Cornell

East Region tickets are currently averaging $383. Tickets to both days of East Regionals is Syracuse jumped jumped up $25, on the Cornell win over Wisconsin in Round 2 in Jacksonville.

2-seed West Virginia plays 11-seed Washington on March 25 at 7:27 pm in Syracuse. 12-seed Cornell takes on 1-seed Kentucky at 9:57 pm.

Thursday-only tickets for the East Regional
Carrier Dome (Syracuse, NY) Thursday, Mar 25
1,000+ tickets
Lowest price tickets start at $108
Average price tickets = $224

Saturday Only tickets in Syracuse
2,000+ tickets
Lowest price tickets start at $76
Average price tickets = $220

Tickets to Both Days of the East Regional
1,000+ tickets
Lowest price tickets start at  $156
Average price tickets = $383

Who is searching for East Regional tickets
1. New York (Ithaca leads Syracuse and NYC in searches)
2. Washington
3. Pennsylvania
4. Kentucky
5. Connecticut

For fans who search and compare tickets, there are outstanding values to be had and FanSnap make finding the values easy. When fans search to tickets to both days in Syracuse, FanSnap will show fans the best value tickets in a variety of sections. For example, there are lower corner tickets listed for $248 (61% lower than comparable tickets).

Our NCAA Tournament Tickets by the Bracket post makes it easy to search for tickets based on the games. We listed them in a bracket like you’re used to seeing.

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We are finding thousands of great NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament tickets, even for those sessions that are already ‘sold out.’ Fans searching for NCAA tickets on FanSnap are saving time and money, and benefiting from an amazing choice of tickets to the Final Four® in Indianapolis, as well as the Elite 8® in Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Saint Louis and Houston, and the Sweet 16® and opening rounds of the West Region, Midwest Region, South Region and East Region.

The NCAA tournament is unique in that hoops fans have very little time to make ticket and travel arrangements once the pairings are revealed, and throughout the month they must react quickly if they are fortunate enough to have their team advance through the bracket. Part of what drives fans to madness in March is the exercise of checking ticket site after ticket site to try and find the set of tickets that best meet their budget.

“FanSnap ticket search results, gleaned from searching dozens of ticket sites, include hundreds or in some cases thousands of tickets for each game,” said FanSnap CEO Mike Janes. “FanSnap makes it very hard for fans to overpay, as fans using the FanSnap ticket search engine can easily identify at a glance the ‘best value’ tickets – those that are priced substantially below the other available comparable tickets by 10%, 25%, even 50% less.”

For example, FanSnap ticket search results currently show 4,000+ NCAA Championship Game tickets from nine ticket sites, which represent hundreds of sellers. The asking prices for comparable NCAA Championship Game tickets vary by as much as 60%.

The variation in asking prices for the Regionals is similar, where comparable tickets to the Elite 8 games vary by up to 50%. For example, fans using FanSnap can find tickets to the Midwest Regional, for half the price of other tickets being offered in the same area of the arena.

- West Regional (Salt Lake City) – up to 43% variation
- East Regional (Syracuse) – up to 52% variation
- Midwest Regional (St Louis) – up to 51% variation
- South Regional (Houston) – up to 58% variation

FanSnap highlights the best ticket values at any given moment. Fans can buy on their own schedule rather than waiting to purchase in an attempt to get a better value, and risking missing out on the best, or any, tickets altogether. Fans searching all NCAA tournament events will see FanSnap’s convenient up-to-the-moment summary table of the available best values at different price points. Fans can also use FanSnap’s award-winning dynamic FanSnap Maps, noting both the best value star icons, as well as being able to zoom into an incredibly useful row-level view that highlights ticket offers that often differ by 10% to 25%, even within the same section of the arena.

Fans searching all NCAA tournament events will see FanSnap’s convenient up-to-the-moment summary table of the available best values at different price points.

A review of current NCAA ticket prices on FanSnap also shows average asking prices vary greatly from Regional to Regional, e.g. for NCAA Regional Finals tickets:
- In Salt Lake City, West Regional tickets start at $103 and average $191.
- In Syracuse, East Regional tickets start at $109 and average $287.
- In St Louis, Midwest Regional tickets start at $68 and average $200.
- In Houston, South Regional tickets start at $30 and average $207.

The ticket variability is even more pronounced for Round 1 and 2 games. The average price of an “all-sessions strip” (tickets to all the games at a venue) in Buffalo is $140 more than for any other venue.