A friend and I who each have spare tickets have been on UND's list for
two weeks and have had just one nibble call between us.  UND may have
sold out their initial allottment, but they have access to too many
tickets.  I'm really surprised to hear them say they asked for more
from the NCAA.

Also, since eBay auctions are going for about $50 per three-game set
of tickets, and people buying on eBay are the ones who want to be sure
they have tickets before they travel, I suspect the rate on the street
will be even less.

It will be interesting to hear what the street rate ends up being--it
will be too bad if the Columbus Dispatch quoted number of $200 scares
away curious local people.

Kirk Eisenbeis


On Apr 5, 2005 8:33 AM, Carol S. White c-whit-at-umn.edu |HOCKEY-L|
<...> wrote:
> I found this article very interesting, taking into account the glut of
> tickets for sale from private parties!  I hope that some of you took the
> advice given and called the ticket offices of the participating schools to
> get rid of your tickets.
> -CArol
>
> Also listed was the distribution:
> 17,500 total tix
> 8,750  public sale via lottery
> 4,375  OSU, Columbus groups
> 2,400  to participating schools
> 1,975  to NCAA personnel
>
> Ticket allocation has strong local flavor
> Columbus groups, OSU fans outnumber participating schools
> Tuesday, April 05, 2005
> Dennis Fiely
> THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
>
> It's our party, and we'll go if we want to.
>
> Columbus hockey fans will benefit from a generous allotment of tickets to
> the sold-out Frozen Four, which will begin Thursday in Value City Arena.
>
> The NCAA distributed 4,375 tickets to Columbus groups and Ohio State fans,
> compared with 600 tickets to each of the four qualifying teams.
>
> The four will compete for college hockey's national championship.
>
> The University of Minnesota still had a "handful" of tickets yesterday. But
> the three other schools — the University of Denver, University of North
> Dakota and Colorado College — sold out.
>
> The NCAA rebuffed North Dakota's request last week for 400 additional
> tickets, sports department spokesman Dan Benson said.
>
> "They told us they didn't have any available."
>
> Colorado College also "could have used more," athletics department
> spokesman Dave Reed said. "The phone in the ticket office was ringing off
> the hook the Monday after we qualified."
>
> The NCAA sold half the tickets through a public lottery, with 50 percent
> reserved for fans who have attended past championships and 50 percent
> distributed through a random drawing.
>
> The NCAA allocated its Columbus tickets to the Columbus Blue Jackets, the
> Greater Columbus Sports Commission, Value City seat-license holders and
> people on record for buying a ticket to a Buckeyes hockey game.
>
> "We're hoping all those Ohio State fans root for us since we knocked
> Michigan out of the tournament," Colorado College's Reed said.
>
> Fans who travel here without tickets won't necessarily be left in the cold.
>
> The Internet auction site eBay lists several pages of tickets, and brokers
> report an ample supply for a soft demand.
>
> "We've had a few calls from fans of the teams coming in, but people are not
> beating down our doors," said Matt Colahan of Tickets Galore, a Columbus
> broker.
>
> "If Ohio State would have gotten in the tournament, it would be a different
> story."
>
> Small Western schools dominate the field. Higherprofile schools closer to
> Columbus — such as Michigan or Boston College — would have been better
> draws, noted Jamie Kaufman of Dream Seats, a Grandview broker.
>
> Given the moderate demand for tickets, "our prices are not outrageous at
> all," he said. "We can get you in the building for all three games at $200"
> — $56 more than face value.
>
> The going rate for singlegame tickets, he said, is $75.
>
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