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Interview with Andrew from Fox Sports Radio
Andrew: I mentioned tickets before, what’s it going to take to get you into the building? Michael Lipman joins us every week from www.ticketsofamerica.com.
Michael: Andrew, don’t you love this time of year?
Andrew: I do… but not until next week to be honest with you, the conference championship games don’t do much for me. However, I know it’s a big draw in NY. We talked about it last week. So, Big East Tournament, Title game, Saturday night. What are talking here?
Michael: Wee I’ll tell you something, before UConn lost it was $200.00 to $1500.00. Now since UConn lost it’s $100.00 to $1000.00.
Andrew: Wait…UConn was that big of a draw?
Michael: Oh, UConn is the tournament, if you don’t have a NY area school in the final it makes a huge difference, because of the drive over factor.
Andrew: I understand that, but to me, even though there’s a drive down from Stores, and not that much of a drive, to me for some reason UConn is that sexy team this year, maybe I’m looking at it the wrong way.
Michael: Well it’s just the fans, it’s like a culture, I mean the whole state is really behind basketball, and I’ll tell you one thing, people look at the finals and obviosly people are looking at the ACC final and circling that. We talked about the prices last week at Cameron it was $1900.00 to get in. Right now for the ACC Championship everyone is looking ahead to the NCAA and the Conference championship right now is $150.00-$250.00 to get in, Duke vs. UNC, one week later.
Andrew: Michael, what about in the Big Ten? Where Indiana is on to a second round game and they are in Indianapolis.
Michael: Great Fans. Obviously they’re going to have an impact and if they go to the championship of the Big Ten that is going to definitely drive the price. But you know what interesting enough, even so with the Final Four, we call it the Final Four, we don’t call it the Final Two. The Semi Finals is definitely a bigger tickets and there’s definitely more value for the championship because you have two losing teams selling their tickets. So that also dictates the price and really has an impact. the Semi Final game definitely is a bigger ticket.
Andrew: Michael Lipman, www.ticketsofamerica.com joining us on Game Time Live on FOX. Michael, compare it, these championship weekend tickets, these conference championship weekend tickets, to anything we’re going to see next week in the first round.
Michael: Nothing, the way they have the format, you can go to ticketsofamerica.com Sunday when they put the draw out, it’s really tremendous because the teams are playing closer to their homes. They put UNC in Raleigh, that’s going to drive the price to the moon. Memphis playing in Arkansas is going to drive the price to the moon. And I’ll tell you, in Miami, the people, they are not the best fans for the Miami Hurricanes, but as many games as have been selling out, they put them in Tampa and they are going to drive over and put the price up.
Andrew: Miami fans!
Michael: They are hot right now!
Andrew: I know, I just didn’t know they had any basketball fans.
Michael: I didn’t know either! But they’re selling out every game now.
Andrew: I didn’t even know they had a basketball program.
Michael: And obviously Florida State if they get in to the tournament you the drive over factor again. Where ever the game is, if there is a team close, they will drive over and push the price up. And that’s good the NCAA did is keep them close together.
Andrew: We have about a minute left, what is the perfect Final Four match up for a ticket broker?
Michael: It depends what side of the fence, obviously ticket brokers such a ticketsofamerica.com, we take orders all year long, so if you have a lot of orders you want a soft Final Four, if you have a lot of inventory you want to see a big Final Four. So if you want to see a big Final Four you want Texas to make because it is in San Antonio. UNC and Duke are also big every time they get in
