That might be the fast track to get off the waitlist for basketball.
That was how I improved my standing when Fertitta opened in 2018.
Our issues aren’t ticket resellers or apathetic fans skipping a lot of the home games. Our issue is there is a disconnect between the true value of our tickets and value our fan base places on the tickets. I have tickets and can’t make many midweek games and could not even sell my tickets for $10 each to the buy games… plenty of people were willing to take them off my hands for free though. There is a Facebook ticket group, when I could not make a game I would start by listing the tickets StubHub and in the facebook group and on here ( both at $5 less then my Stubhub net payment), I only sold them 1 time in the Facebook group every other time they sold on Stubhub because other schools value our tickets more then we do. Last year Tech, ISU, and Kansas fans were paying more than $200 each just to get in the building and our fans were complaining about it.
This year there are fewer marquee games so there will be less money for resellers to make so next year should have more season ticket spots open up.
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And this right here is why I don’t buy the claim that we should have built a bigger arena.
Sure, there’s a waiting list for season tickets, but it’s pretty obvious that most of those waiters aren’t clamoring to get to the games, because there are tickets available on the secondary market for every single game.
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That is every game every where. Bottom line is we are selling all the tickets every season so the demand is there. We could absolutely sell more at this time. We are so far ahead of where we have been in my life time (52) so I am not about to complain we have a few empty areas because brokers are sitting on them.
Yeah, I don’t know if every game everywhere has good tickets for $10 that go unsold. And I’m certain that there aren’t many top 5 teams with 7300 seat arenas where that’s happening.
None of that has anything to do with how bad it used to be or how much better things are. I’m just saying that we don’t have sufficient demand to justify the huge investment required to add more seats. It could happen someday, perhaps, but we aren’t there now.
And the “I can’t get tickets” crowd isn’t trying very hard. 
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Well it has everything to do with perspective. Sorry you can’t get rid of your seats but we are selling out all seats and then some and that’s a fact. There are going to be some weakest weekday games with lots of options for fans.
I don’t care to argue about expanding, but we certainly would sell another couple thousand with ease at this point in time.
This is an impossibility. There aren’t more seats than there are, and that is actually a fact. 
I think you’re looking for someone to argue with about attendance. I’m not doing that.
Thanks for your fake concern about my tickets, though. I typically use them and have logged a lot of highway miles to make that happen over the last several years. I offer others up to friends, and if they can’t make it, then they get donated back, which probably results in them being empty for those games. Whatever. The scattered empty seats that get some people worked up don’t bother me in the least- I just wish they were next to me.
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You know what would impact season tickets growth. If tournament tickets could be given based on being a season ticket holder to half the stadium, and the games were at universities basketball stadiums. The home team wouldnt necessarily play at their home stadium for example. And it would give the universities a chance to show off their campus.
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Yep I doubt I go to anymore tournament games in football stadiums aka like Alamodome, to far away from court etc, can watch better on TV without Al the hassle
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Those 200 level tix I got for Indianapolis weren’t bad… except for the Purdue and Kentucky fans surrounding us…
If someone really wanted season tickets for basketball, you would do anything to get it.
How come you all didn’t apply back when Fertitta opened in 2018 or during the AAC years?
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Because I moved to NJ in January of 2018… otherwise I’d have awesome seats… I don’t want to resell them every game so I don’t get them…
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Or when we played at Holfeinz Pavilion
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Fair enough due to your relocation.
Before that I never bought them because I never had to worry about them being sold out… 
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LOL 
true 
Except the Derrick Rose game!!!
I was a student at that time or I would’ve bought a ticket… I’d never seen a sellout at HOF until then…
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Not true. The and more refers to reselling them on the aftermarket’s.
I personally would love it if the after market scalping agencies would disappear entirely.