I bought Brookyn a couple of weeks ago and there were still scattered single tix available for face value on ticketmaster. Boston has been sold out for at least that long and tix are going for 300 plus on the secondary market. The way to buy them from the NCAA has long since passed. You would have had to buy them months ago not knowing who would be playing there. UConn will get an allotment that will be sold to donors based on priority points.
UConn changed the post season ticket sale policy sometime in the early 90's in order to stimulate big donations.
Prior to that all season tickets and post season tickets were offered for sale in the order of the donors' total point balances. That included both the BE tournament and the NCAA.
With the new policy, total points were still the key determinent used to rank donors for the purchase of season tickets BUT post season tickets were offered first by donor class and then by points within the respective classes.
For example, if you have 2,000 points today you'll probably be in the top 500 or so of the over 38,000 donors and have great season ticket choices.
But, if you aren't in the top donor group someone could come in with a first time donation of $10,000 or $25,000 and, with far fewer total points, be ahead of many donors with many more points for post season tickets.
I told Ben Kirtland (before he and Lew Perkins went to Kansas and implemented a new sales scheme there) when they announced the change that since loyalty is being cast aside some donors may decide to do a larger donation when the rosters look good for the next season and cut back when they're looking weaker. He disagreed.
I did it one year and learned there must be no one looking at donor histories. At least it appeared that way since I was not contacted to ask why, after many years of significant donations, I suddenly cut way back. Maybe that's why our endowment is so pitifully small for a large state university. Donor relations must not be a priority.
