Top things overheard at the Cracker Barrel in Indianapolis this morning:
“I’m just glad we got real student athletes playing for the championship”
“Duke is my second favorite team”
“I’m just glad Kentucky lost”
“Coach K does things right, just like Bobby Knight”
“I think Singler and Hayward are going to have it out”
“We are going to need to light it up tonight to win”
“We’re real proud of our boys here!”
Considering the fact Duke fans are the opponent, the people of Indianapolis couldn’t be nicer hosts! Even at the downtown sports bar Champps last night where everyone was watching the Yankees Red Sox season opener, Duke fans were greeted with a smile and made to feel very welcome!
Butler and Duke fans are finding Final Four Championship game tickets with FanSnap ticket search engine. Fans could find 8,000 Final Four tickets with FanSnap early this morning. Now, that number is down to 7,000 — still plenty of seats available in Lucas Oil Stadium.
After falling for the last few days, ticket prices were up sharply today — up from $225 yesterday to $277 in the last 24 hours. While the average price of $277 is up more than $50 over yesterday, fans can find tickets for $70 — $15 less than yesterday. There are also now 250 tickets available for $100 or less. Here are the best value tickets right now. They are the Final Four Championship tickets priced significantly lower than comparable tickets.
There are still more ticket searches coming from Indiana than any other state. Indianan are outsearching fans in Illinois (the next leading state more that 3:1. FanSnap.com is a search engine for tickets. We are currently finding Final Four Championship tickets from 13 ticket sites for the Final Four championship game.
The top states searching for tickets to the Final Four Championship has also changed since yesterday. Now North Carolina — Duke’s home state — is in the top 5.
1. Indiana
2. Illinois
3. Michigan
4. Ohio
5. North Carolina
Top cities searching for tickets to the Final Four Championship today
1. Indianapolis, Indiana
2. Carmel, Indiana
3. Chicago, Illinois
4. Fishers, Indiana
5. Grand Rapids, Michigan
Fans can currently find 6,000+ ticket listings for all three Final Four weekend games (two semifinal games on Saturday and the Championship on Monday), 3,000+ Saturday-only games ticket listings and 7,000+ Final Four Championship game ticket listings with FanSnap.
For Final Four Semifinal games, fans can find:
- Lower level end tickets from $658 to $2,077
- Lower level middle tickets from $1,800 to $8,800
- Upper level middle tickets from $396 to $3,299
- Upper level end tickets from $220 to $2,200
Final Four tickets:
Semifinals-only (both games Sat.): Lowest price= $137 Average price =$461
Championship-only (Mon): Lowest price= $92 Average price =$260
Full Strip (all games, both days): Lowest price= $220 Average price =$546
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.
Current best values: - Loge End 451 for $220, 56% lower than the average for comparable tickets
- Terrance Corner 610 for $303, 42% less than an average of comparables
- Field Center 100-139 for $1,844, 50% lower that average comparables
Top states with fans searching for Final Four tickets: 1. Indiana
2. West Virginia
3. Michigan
4. Illinois
5. New York
Top Cities searching for Final Four Tickets:
1. Indianapolis
2. Charleston, WV
3. Chicago
4. New York
5. Lansing, MI
Average ticket prices for comparable events:
- BCS National Championship ticket = $865 – $1,000
- World Series game tickets = $910 – $1,100
- Super Bowl tickets = $2,200 – $3,200
- Olympic Gold Medal Hockey (U.S. v Canada) tickets = $3,600 – $4,300
- 2010 MLB Opening Day (Yankees @ Red Sox) tickets = $251
- One round at the Masters (tickets) = $750
All four Final Four teams are now on their way to Indianapolis and all the waiting and all the nail-biting is over… for the moment. Duke, West Virginia, Butler and Michigan State fans are booking tickets to Indianapolis. Well, maybe not Butler fans since the Final Four will be essentially a home game for Butler. All are searching for Final Four tickets. Tickets to the semis are up $100 since yesterday when Butler and West Virginia clinched Final Four berths.
Lowest price Final Four tickets:
Semifinals-only (both games Sat.) = $308
Championship-only (Mon) = $115
Full Strip (all games, both days) = $317
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.
Although the average prices are trending up, there are still values to be had. FanSnap makes it easy for fans to spot the best value tickets. We make them so hard to miss. Take a look at the Final Four semifinals tickets search page. FanSnap is showing fans tickets that are 30% to 45% lower than the average price of comparable tickets.
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 find:
- Lower level end tickets from $658 to $2,200
- Lower level middle tickets from $2,347 to $8,800
- Upper level middle tickets from $437 to $3,299
- Upper level end tickets from $317 to $2,200
Top states searching for Final Four tickets:
1. Indiana
2. West Virginia
3. Michigan
4. Illinois
5. Kentucky
Ticket prices for comparable events:
- BCS National Championship ticket = $865 – $1,000
- World Series game tickets = $910 – $1,100
- Super Bowl tickets = $2,200 – $3,200
- Olympic Gold Medal Hockey (U.S. v Canada) tickets = $3,600 – $4,300
- 2010 MLB Opening Day (Yankees @ Red Sox) tickets = $251
- One round at the Masters = $750
The Kentucky Wildcats were the third 1-seed to get knocked out of the NCAA Tournament before the Final Four. Kentucky, like Syracuse and Kansas were thought to be locks for the Final Four. All were 1-seeds. All were sent home much earlier than their fans hoped. Duke, The only remaining 1-seed in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is the fourth and final team to make the Final Four in Indianapolis. Find more than 8,000 Final Four tickets from 14 ticket sites with FanSnap.
The best NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in recent memory rolls on. With each upset, we think we’ve seen it all and then teams like Kansas and Villanova lose and teams like Cornell and Washington cruise to victory. Ah, March, please don’t end. Our brackets are long ago busted and we don’t care. We just hope the madness of the buzzer beaters and upsets of Round 1 & 2 continue in the regionals.
The hoops gods just keep on giving in the Regionals. Syracuse, another 1-seed falls. 2-seed Kansas State survives Xavier in double OT! We can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!
Midwest Region tickets
For eight teams, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament continues in St. Louis for the Midwest Regional games at America’s Center – Edward Jones Dome.
Tickets to the all Tournament games in St Louis start at $163 and average $330
Friday-only tickets start at $120 and average $228
The Mountaineers crushed Wildcat Final-Four dreams (expectations might be a better word). Kentucky, like Syracuse and Kansas were thought to be locks for the Final Four. All were 1-seeds. All were sent home much earlier than their fans hoped. Only Duke remains as a 1-seed in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament — playing essentially the hometown favorite Bayler (Waco isn’t far from Houston) for the South Region title in an Elite 8 matchup Sunday.
On Saturday, March 27, 2-seed, West Virginia upset 1-seed Kentucky by a score of 73-66, to win the NCAA East Regional in Syracuse and a berth in the Final Four. So fan, West Virginia and Butler have punched dance cards for Indianapolis.
Final Four Tickets start at $255 and average $500. Currently, we’re finding 4,000+ tickets from 8 tickets site representing hundreds of sellers.
FanSnap makes it easy for fans to spot the best value tickets. We make them so hard to miss. Take a look at the Final Four semifinal ticket search page. FanSnap shows tickets listed for 38% below the average asking price in two different sections.
The ticket market is dynamic. Tickets are being sold and new tickets become available all the time. This means the best value tickets are always changing.
Earlier today, Kentucky was #2 on the list. Since West Virginia beat Kentucky in the Elite eight, West Virginia jumped up to the #2 slot from #9. This list will likely look different on Sunday night.
The number 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but still thought of as a Cinderella team is mid-major Butler. The 4,200-student, Butler University is located just seven miles from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the site of the 2010 NCAA Final Four. The home team Bulldogs will have a jump on Final Four Tickets given Butler is the first of the Elite 8 to secure a spot in the Final Four.
On Saturday, March 27, 5-seed, Butler upset 2-seed Kansas St. by a score of 63-56 in Salt Lake City to represent the West Region in the Final Four.
Final Four Tickets start at $231 and average $500. Currently, we’re finding 4,000+ tickets from 8 tickets site representing hundreds of sellers.
The average Final Four ticket price can be interesting in the broadest sense, but fans want values. FanSnap makes it easy to snap up the best value tickets because we make them so hard to miss. Take a look at the Final Four semifinal ticket search page. FanSnap shows tickets listed for 38% below the average asking price in two different sections.
The ticket market is dynamic. Tickets are being sold and new tickets become available all the time. This means the best value tickets are always changing.
Tim Defrisco/Getty Images Jerry Tarkanian famously chewed towels while head coach at UNLV
Okay, we admit, we got swept up in the Sweet 16 and are grabbing a fresh towel to chew on while we watch the Elite 8 games today and tomorrow. (Tip o’ the cap to Jerry Tarkanian for the towel idea.) Couple that with the fact that fans keep asking how to score Final Four tickets and it got us to thinking we should whip up a how-to video.
“How to find Final Four tickets,” it seems to us, isn’t the right question. The better question, in our minds, is how to find Final Four tickets at the best value? How do you get the tickets you want, when you want them at the best value?
We know Duke, Kansas State, Butler, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan State and Baylor fans are anxiously awaiting their games today and tomorrow to see if their teams can punch their tickets to Indianapolis for the Final Four. Excited fans will be plotting routes to Indianapolis on maps, or consulting Kayak.com for travel plans and coming to FanSnap in search of Final Four tickets. Here are a few tips for scoring those just-right Final Four tickets.
We admit, we won’t win an Oscar for this video. Can you do better? Shoot us a link to your video on how to use FanSnap and we’ll blog about it, or shoot an email to christian@fansnap.com about doing a guest post.
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.
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Sixteen teams are still dancing on the road to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis — the site of the Final Four round of the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The 2010 NCAA Tournament has been as exciting as any we can remember and the Regionals haven’t even started yet. Early exits by Kansas and ‘Nova blew up brackets and shifted ticket searches away from Lawrence, Kansas and Villanova, Pennsylvania. Instead, we’re seeing 10-seed St. Mary’s Gaels fans in Moraga, California and the UNI PantherNation (9 seed) in Northern Iowa searching for NCAA tournament tickets.
While the teams take the NCAA Tournament one game at a time, fans are thinking ahead to the Final Four round and more specifically, Final Four tickets. Fans in Kentucky are conducting searches on FanSnap for “Final Four tickets” more than any other state — Including the host state of Indiana.
April 3 and 5 (Semifinals – Saturday & Championship – Monday)
7,000+ tickets
Lowest price ticket = $318
Average ticket = $675
Knowing the average ticket price can be useful when following trends or to compare one event to another, but fans don’t buy “average tickets” Fans buy those just-right tickets for them. That might mean the first ten rows or it might meant sitting near their friends or it might mean just getting into the event.
Fans searching for NCAA tournament tickets will see FanSnap’s up-to-the-moment summary of the best value tickets at different price points. Of course, fans can still zoom into FanSnap Mapssm, and search for their own best values. We highlight best values with blue stars.
FanSnap shows fans the best value tickets comparing the prices of comperable tickets and then highlighting the tickets with the lowest price
For example, fans searching for “Final Four tickets” will see average prices by section and the best value ticket for that section. This is the direct result of fans telling us that while searching and comparing tickets from across the web is great and comprehensiveness in important, why not just show me the tickets I might want — the ones that are the best value — and save me the searching.
How does Best Value tickets work?
The average price of Section: Terrance Center 614 is $1,300. We highlight the tickets in that section for $446. That’s 65% below the average price for comparable tickets.
Section: Lodge Corner 416 tickets average $1,084. We show fans the tickets in that section for $578, or 46% less than the average.
Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, Ohio State and UC Santa Barbara from the Midwest Region as well as Xavier, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, and Oakland from the South Region will play their Round 1 games on Friday March 19. Round 1 winners will return to the Bradley Center on Sunday the 21st to play Round 2 games.
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament tickets for Round 1 & 2 are sold as “sessions” — or as a strip. Session tickets get fan in to two games — one early and one later. Officials then clear the arena and ready it for the second session (of two games) later in the day. An “All Sessions Strip” is a ticket to all the games at a venue.
There are currently hundreds of All Sessions Strips for the NCAA Tournament Rounds 1 & 2 at the Bradley Center available.
Lowest price Bradley Center Strips = $300
Bradley Center Strips average = $437
The winner of this bracket advances to Midwest Regional
Round 1 Session 1:
March 19
1,000+ tickets available
Lowest price tickets = $92
Tickets average = $266
Round 2 Session 3:
March 21
hundreds of tickets available
Lowest price tickets = $129
Tickets average = $207
The moment Michigan State upset UConn, local fans starting snapping up tickets for the NCAA Championship Game. The lowest price available to get into the game has more than doubled, to just under $200 (ticket plus commission). Given that most Spartan fans will be within driving distance of Ford Field, they get to avoid spending their money on hotels and airplanes, which is nice…
A search on FanSnap shows there are still over 2000 tickets available from eleven ticket companies, including Barry’s Tickets, eBay, Golden Tickets, Great Seats, Razorgator, StubHub, TicketNetwork, Ticket Solutions, Ticket Town, Totally Tickets, and TotalTickets.com.
Tickets are available everywhere from the first ten rows courtside to the “nosebleed section.” I have seen Final Fours in the Alamodome and the Georgia Dome. Watching the semifinals on TV, which set a record for attendance of over 70,000, it sure looked to me like Ford Field may be the most outstanding big college basketball venue in America.
It used to be that national sporting events would be stuffy corporate affairs with the stands populated by sponsors, VIPs and other “suits.”
One of the major benefits of the robust ticket resale market is that fans now actively buy and sell tickets to these (and all) events either through brokers or directly on marketplaces like StubHub, eBay, or the NCAA’s endorsed exchange, Razorgator.
The Steelers-Seahawks Super Bowl a few years ago was the watershed moment – the end of the pure corporate event. It was like a Steelers home game, populated with real Steelers fans, thanks to the resale market. The fan’s world has changed forever.
A quick “final four championship” search on FanSnap shows thousands of tickets are available for the NCAA championship game.With Michigan State’s win, all those disappointed UConn fans will flood the market with their tickets. So will the fans of whoever loses the second semifinal.Half of the state of Michigan will want to go.The opportunity to see the locals win a national championship at home is priceless.
Watching ticket activity around the two hot national events this month – the Final Four and the Masters – reminds me of something I sometimes take for granted.
My kids have no idea what a tea kettle is.Or an LP record.They also have no clue what the words “sold out” mean.
Since the ticket resale market has gone mainstream in the past decade, there is no such thing as “sold out.”It is possible to get into almost any game or show, no matter how hot.With tickets, just like any other commodity, demand creates supply.
That’s really the primary difference between the original distribution of tickets (the “primary market”) and the resale market.There is no such thing as sold out. The other major difference between the two ticket markets is that fans have many choices where to buy from in the resale market, where the original box office ticket distribution is always contracted with a single company.
You choose to go to events.You can choose your location and how much to spend. You can choose who to buy from. Enjoy those choices – and your ability, and right, to choose.
If it’s on your “bucket list,” this year may be a great year to catch the Masters or the Final Four.Don’t forget that a few years ago this would not have been possible.
