I hope I'm misunderstanding this: Schools received only 250 tickets to the game, but the Illini picked up 100 more that were returned by, ironically, Virginia Tech.
Did I really read that right? Virginia Tech was allotted 250 ducats to today's NCAA Tournament first-round game in Columbus, and they couldn't even find 250 people who wanted them? I wasn't expecting either team to have home-court advantage tonight (Blacksburg, Va. and Champaign, Ill., are both almost exactly 300 miles from Columbus), but if Illinois is getting some of the tickets that were supposed to go to Virginia Tech, that's a good sign for the Illini.
I complained yesterday about the empty seats in Winston-Salem, NC, but I refuse to believe schools like Illinois and Virginia Tech won't be able to fill an arena that's just five hours away from campus. If only the Illinois fans are showing up, a 12-5 upset is likely.
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Where did that come from anyway?
http://www.hokiesports.com/mbasketball/ncaa2007/
2nd sentence - SOLD OUT
All schools get the same small allotment and those are also the ones that they use to send the band and anyone else involved with the program. Then they release the last few tickets to the athletic club based on priority. This pretty much means that the top-15 "donors" get a crack at these tickets. I guarantee that they sold out in less than 60 seconds.