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[Since1990]

Has anyone been through the new seat selection process? I have a time set for next Thursday.

 

[Bald Husky]

Has anyone been through the new seat selection process? I have a time set for next Thursday.

Yeah, my time is on June 16, and that makes me nervous. I get them for XL and I don't know what reno they are doing there except for switching the benches to the other side. As far as what has already transpired, I don't know when it starts.

 

[Jewels]

Has anyone been through the new seat selection process? I have a time set for next Thursday.

Check out the Men's Basketball Forum for plenty of discussion on the process

 

[Huskee11]

I'm scheduled for Thursday 6/5 as well. Earlier emails from UConn said the process started on May 19.

If you log into your account click "2025-2026 Basketball Seat Selection Process", then click on the appropriate link to view inventory. You can then see the seats still available at both locations.

Generally, I don't see a lot left in the lower level at Gampel but there are still quite a few left in Sections 208-210, which are mid-court upper level with seat backs. The XL lower level inventory looks much better at the current time.

What is unknown is how many people are ahead in the queue at this moment, and how many seats they have allocated. I have my ranking number at both locations, but that doesn't tell me much. No one can add to the number of seats they already have during this process.

 

[Since1990]

I'm scheduled for Thursday 6/5 as well. Earlier emails from UConn said the process started on May 19.

If you log into your account click "2025-2026 Basketball Seat Selection Process", then click on the appropriate link to view inventory. You can then see the seats still available at both locations.

Generally, I don't see a lot left in the lower level at Gampel but there are still quite a few left in Sections 208-210, which are mid-court upper level with seat backs. The XL lower level inventory looks much better at the current time.

What is unknown is how many people are ahead in the queue at this moment, and how many seats they have allocated. I have my ranking number at both locations, but that doesn't tell me much. No one can add to the number of seats they already have during this process.

Not much to tell from the website.
My tickets are at the XL Center and I was just wondering if anyone has made a seat selection yet and what was their result.

 

[broooce]

I'm scheduled for 6/13 for the XL Center (or whatever it's going to be called). With the renovation there I'm uncertain how it's all going to play out as I'm a relatively new partial season ticket holder. Fingers crossed!

 

[Huskee11]

Not much to tell from the website.
My tickets are at the XL Center and I was just wondering if anyone has made a seat selection yet and what was their result.

You can see what is currently available, that's something.

 

[Skeets]

My time for the XL is 6/10 at 9:51. I will be there and extremely disappointed if I can't get the seats that I've had since this whole thing started. I don't know what they are doing to the XL center, but in my opinion this thing has been an outlandish money grab by UConn, i.e. double points for donations. Donate a lot to improve your chances, etc. It stinks and reflects very poorly on UConn, and I've told them so. They are in danger of no longer being a classy institution. OK, let's rub some salt in the wounds, this magnificent undertaking is being financed with my tax dollars. Enough said before I have to take some meds.

How do other season ticket holders feel?

 

[BullDawg]

My time for the XL is 6/10 at 9:51. I will be there and extremely disappointed if I can't get the seats that I've had since this whole thing started. I don't know what they are doing to the XL center, but in my opinion this thing has been an outlandish money grab by UConn, i.e. double points for donations. Donate a lot to improve your chances, etc. It stinks and reflects very poorly on UConn, and I've told them so. They are in danger of no longer being a classy institution. OK, let's rub some salt in the wounds, this magnificent undertaking is being financed with my tax dollars. Enough said before I have to take some meds.

How do other season ticket holders feel?

As an outsider here, it seems that the admin is trying to push out folks who had good seats, but haven’t contributed a lot in recent years. Hence, the doubling of points for more recent contributions (post 2018). I’m based in Tampa, am a long time season ticket holder for MBB and WBB at South Florida, and a Georgia grad. Couldn’t touch my tickets (floor seats and coach’s club access at WBB and regular club access, lower bowl for MBB) if I was living in Athens, Ga. where they have separate donation priority points for football and basketball. Even at South Florida, I would dread an arena reseating. A very sad reflection of the times in collegiate athletics greatly exacerbated by UCONN’s unrivaled success in MBB and WBB.

 

[Skeets]

As an outsider here, it seems that the admin is trying to push out folks who had good seats, but haven’t contributed a lot in recent years. Hence, the doubling of points for more recent contributions (post 2018). I’m based in Tampa, am a long time season ticket holder for MBB and WBB at South Florida, and a Georgia grad. Couldn’t touch my tickets (floor seats and coach’s club access at WBB and regular club access, lower bowl for MBB) if I was living in Athens, Ga. where they have separate donation priority points for football and basketball. Even at South Florida, I would dread an arena reseating. A very sad reflection of the times in collegiate athletics greatly exacerbated by UCONN’s unrivaled success in MBB and WBB.

Without a doubt there are some folks donating to get double "priority points" to improve their seats. The weird thing about UConn WBB is that they are probably losing almost as many season ticket holders who are no longer with us. Most of the lower bowl are older folks, some who might have gone on to a higher venue.

I read somewhere that the changes to the XL center are mostly things that should not affect seating, things like improve locker rooms, luxury boxes (which makes more sense for ice hockey than for basketball), other things that might not be obvious, and maybe some minor improvements to the basketball seating.

The PR for both Gampel and the XL center really stinks. There used to be a time when season ticket holders, who donate every year, were treated very nicely. No more, that ship has sailed.

I no longer buy Gampel season tickets. Does anyone know what they are doing to the seating? The bench seating was designed by the Spanish Inquisition as an option to flogging. Changing that would reduce the total that can be seated, not something UConn would be trying to do...

 

[Sifaka]

The weird thing about UConn WBB is that they are probably losing almost as many season ticket holders who are no longer with us. Most of the lower bowl are older folks, some who might have gone on to a higher venue.

Is this a euphemistic way of saying that some old people die each year? Can they leave their seats to their offspring, concubines, et alia?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

My time for the XL is 6/10 at 9:51. I will be there and extremely disappointed if I can't get the seats that I've had since this whole thing started. I don't know what they are doing to the XL center, but in my opinion this thing has been an outlandish money grab by UConn, i.e. double points for donations. Donate a lot to improve your chances, etc. It stinks and reflects very poorly on UConn, and I've told them so. They are in danger of no longer being a classy institution. OK, let's rub some salt in the wounds, this magnificent undertaking is being financed with my tax dollars. Enough said before I have to take some meds.

How do other season ticket holders feel?

With no involvement with UConn - but involvement with seats elsewhere -

1 - Of course its a "money grab" - that is what it is all about. If you expect your team to do well in the current day and age, expect more and more of this sort of thing. In Arizona's case, they tacked on an "athlete charge" to all tix, not a lot of money, $25 or $50 depending on sport, but a way of doing a price increase without saying so.

2 - Back about the time of the Niya Butts / Adia Barnes coaching change Arizona opened up floor seats, at a time when not so many folks would want the tix. Our very modest donation got us the best tix, next to the broadcast table. A few years later seats were in demand and the University tried to push us down 6 seats away from center court. My wife won the argument, but not in today's world. The problem is also that, if we give up our seats - there are no good seats left in the arena and we would have no priority. (Obviously with the new coach this demand could change).

3 - Current points are awarded based on the combination of your ticket prices and actual donation. Currently our tickets for 4 sports cost around 5 times our actual donation. I wouldn't be shocked if this changes, as well.

 

[Vancat]

My time for the XL is 6/10 at 9:51. I will be there and extremely disappointed if I can't get the seats that I've had since this whole thing started. I don't know what they are doing to the XL center, but in my opinion this thing has been an outlandish money grab by UConn, i.e. double points for donations. Donate a lot to improve your chances, etc. It stinks and reflects very poorly on UConn, and I've told them so. They are in danger of no longer being a classy institution. OK, let's rub some salt in the wounds, this magnificent undertaking is being financed with my tax dollars. Enough said before I have to take some meds.

How do other season ticket holders feel?

Pissed!

 

[FairView]

I don't select until June 9, but I've been looking in on availability and something struck me. In the XL Center, are they moving the benches to the opposite side of the court? Our old seats were opposite the UConn bench at about the foul line. If you look at the chart on the selection page, our old seats are now behind the visitors bench.

 

[Huskee11]

I no longer buy Gampel season tickets. Does anyone know what they are doing to the seating? The bench seating was designed by the Spanish Inquisition as an option to flogging. Changing that would reduce the total that can be seated, not something UConn would be trying to do...

The communication I received back in March indicates that at Gampel they are putting in:

an entirely new lower-level seating structure;

a new lower level sideline premium section including a 3-4 increase in width, cushioned seat bottom, cushioned seat back and cup holder:

All lower sideline sections have upgraded seats with cushioning on seat bottom and seat back:

all non-student section lower endzone seats have upgraded seats with cushioning on the seat bottom; and

new handrails in the aisles.

Re XL/PeoplesBank, UConn said they are making "notable" upgrades to "selected" seating areas, and new premium seating options.

So overall fair to say these changes are benefitting those on the high end.

 

[Huskee11]

I don't select until June 9, but I've been looking in on availability and something struck me. In the XL Center, are they moving the benches to the opposite side of the court? Our old seats were opposite the UConn bench at about the foul line. If you look at the chart on the selection page, our old seats are now behind the visitors bench.

Yes, I noticed that too. The communication from UConn back in March notes that the team bench locations, student section and camera deck are now on opposite sides.

The new UConn bench position will actually be diagonally across from where it had been. So the baskets teams are shooting at in the first half will presumably be switched, and the visitors will still be shooting free throws into the (repositioned) student section in the second half.

 

[Jonathan14]

Just wanted to give feedback based on my seat selection experience. Our timeslot was at 2:44 this afternoon. My husband and I have had the same seats at the XL Center for several years: aisle seats in row P of the section behind the visitors' bench with a view right about at the foul line. We loved our seats and became friendly with the couple sitting beside us. (For context, we've had season tickets for 13 years, we've been donors above and beyond the mandatory seat donation, including during the pandemic, and our seats improved over several years until we ended up at our former seats.)

When I logged on to the seating map this morning to familiarize myself with the process, I was disappointed to see that not only were our former seats gone, but every seat in our section was gone too. (Needless to say, every seat in the eight center sections in the lower bowl was gone.) We ended up choosing seats in section 113. We got an aisle seat and are up just about as high as before.

So long story short: 13 years of season tickets and loyal donations, and after the reseating process, we ended up with seats that are one section worse than the seats we had for the past several years. Not a disaster, but disappointing.

I hope those of you who haven't had a chance to choose your seats yet can find seats that meet your needs! I do recommend logging on early to see what's available. Even if the inventory has changed by the time it's your turn, it's helpful to see what some possibilities might be.

 

[Vancat]

Just wanted to give feedback based on my seat selection experience. Our timeslot was at 2:44 this afternoon. My husband and I have had the same seats at the XL Center for several years: aisle seats in row P of the section behind the visitors' bench with a view right about at the foul line. We loved our seats and became friendly with the couple sitting beside us. (For context, we've had season tickets for 13 years, we've been donors above and beyond the mandatory seat donation, including during the pandemic, and our seats improved over several years until we ended up at our former seats.)

When I logged on to the seating map this morning to familiarize myself with the process, I was disappointed to see that not only were our former seats gone, but every seat in our section was gone too. (Needless to say, every seat in the eight center sections in the lower bowl was gone.) We ended up choosing seats in section 113. We got an aisle seat and are up just about as high as before.

So long story short: 13 years of season tickets and loyal donations, and after the reseating process, we ended up with seats that are one section worse than the seats we had for the past several years. Not a disaster, but disappointing.

I hope those of you who haven't had a chance to choose your seats yet can find seats that meet your needs! I do recommend logging on early to see what's available. Even if the inventory has changed by the time it's your turn, it's helpful to see what some possibilities might be.

Check out the thread on the Men's Forum. Plenty of POed people.

 

[zls44]

Check out the thread on the Men's Forum. Plenty of POed people.

You gonna list your old section, new section and donor level, or no?

 

[Bald Husky]

Just wanted to give feedback based on my seat selection experience. Our timeslot was at 2:44 this afternoon. My husband and I have had the same seats at the XL Center for several years: aisle seats in row P of the section behind the visitors' bench with a view right about at the foul line. We loved our seats and became friendly with the couple sitting beside us. (For context, we've had season tickets for 13 years, we've been donors above and beyond the mandatory seat donation, including during the pandemic, and our seats improved over several years until we ended up at our former seats.)

When I logged on to the seating map this morning to familiarize myself with the process, I was disappointed to see that not only were our former seats gone, but every seat in our section was gone too. (Needless to say, every seat in the eight center sections in the lower bowl was gone.) We ended up choosing seats in section 113. We got an aisle seat and are up just about as high as before.

So long story short: 13 years of season tickets and loyal donations, and after the reseating process, we ended up with seats that are one section worse than the seats we had for the past several years. Not a disaster, but disappointing.

I hope those of you who haven't had a chance to choose your seats yet can find seats that meet your needs! I do recommend logging on early to see what's available. Even if the inventory has changed by the time it's your turn, it's helpful to see what some possibilities might be.

That really concerns me, they shouldn't be giving away seats that have been used in the past and may still be used by the same people. My appointment is 6/16 which is the second to the last day. Last 3 years, upper deck, 7th row, mid-court. Love them, and if I have to be pushed way back that is really unfair. Well, we will see, but I am not very happy or confident at this point.

 

[Vancat]

You gonna list your old section, new section and donor level, or no?

Gampel Men's: Old section, 111. New section 116. Bumped out of 111 into the end zone where about 15 seats were left in the lower bowl when I had my time slot. I think I am a Golden Husky Donor. Only good thing is these seats + donation were like half the price of 111. But would have happily paid the big price to keep the "forever" seats in 111.

 

[Huskee11]

Just finished. I am still in the second level at Gampel and in 106 at XL/Peoples/Whatever, but the seats are slightly better than before at both places.

But this is only after kicking in a fairly decent contribution on the two for one points program. Absent that, I suspect I would have ended up worse off than before.

 

[Jonathan14]

That really concerns me, they shouldn't be giving away seats that have been used in the past and may still be used by the same people. My appointment is 6/16 which is the second to the last day. Last 3 years, upper deck, 7th row, mid-court. Love them, and if I have to be pushed way back that is really unfair. Well, we will see, but I am not very happy or confident at this point.

The best part is that this morning, I received an email from the Associate Athletic Director for Development encouraging me to renew or increase my annual donation. Hmm...last year we made the largest donation we've ever made and ended up in the worst seats we've ever had. What would inspire me to increase my giving? The hope of getting downgraded again next year?

 

[MTSuitski]

Without a doubt there are some folks donating to get double "priority points" to improve their seats. The weird thing about UConn WBB is that they are probably losing almost as many season ticket holders who are no longer with us. Most of the lower bowl are older folks, some who might have gone on to a higher venue.

I read somewhere that the changes to the XL center are mostly things that should not affect seating, things like improve locker rooms, luxury boxes (which makes more sense for ice hockey than for basketball), other things that might not be obvious, and maybe some minor improvements to the basketball seating.

The PR for both Gampel and the XL center really stinks. There used to be a time when season ticket holders, who donate every year, were treated very nicely. No more, that ship has sailed.

I no longer buy Gampel season tickets. Does anyone know what they are doing to the seating? The bench seating was designed by the Spanish Inquisition as an option to flogging. Changing that would reduce the total that can be seated, not something UConn would be trying to do...

Bravo! Your description of the bench seating at Gampel is spot-on. Remember, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

 

[zls44]

Gampel Men's: Old section, 111. New section 116. Bumped out of 111 into the end zone where about 15 seats were left in the lower bowl when I had my time slot. I think I am a Golden Husky Donor. Only good thing is these seats + donation were like half the price of 111. But would have happily paid the big price to keep the "forever" seats in 111.

Appreciate your candor and your contributions. I hope the new seats are not a huge downgrade for you- lower bowl Gampel is all great, and now you’ll have a comfier chair, too!

 

[Sargassoc]

My seats used to be in Section 105, rows 2 and 3 (one on the floor level) at the Hartford Civic Center, XL Center People's Bank Arena (yes, we sat behind each other). My slot is tomorrow. Now I'll be lucky to get into the 200s.

Yes, I upped my contribution to get double points.

 

[Since1990]

Just finished. I am still in the second level at Gampel and in 106 at XL/Peoples/Whatever, but the seats are slightly better than before at both places.

But this is only after kicking in a fairly decent contribution on the two for one points program. Absent that, I suspect I would have ended up worse off than before.

I think a lot of people didn't renew seats.
I don't know how many seats were eliminated due to the upgrade but I renewed yesterday and I only moved 3 seats.

 

[Skeets]

I'm all ventilated, but I want to add I hope they nuke the scoreboard at Peoples Bank. Most high schools have a better score board. A real embarrassment for the basketball capital of the world.

 

[Sargassoc]

I think a lot of people didn't renew seats.
I don't know how many seats were eliminated due to the upgrade but I renewed yesterday and I only moved 3 seats.

I cannot fathom this. I upped my contribution by 500% and LOST my section 104 seats (which I've had for ) to the upper bowl at the XL Center today.

I even called (nicely) the UConn Athletic Office and was told that people with more priority points than I got all those lower bowl seats. If people are NOT renewing, if folks are "aging out," if I doubled my points with my contribution-- what am I doing wrong?

 

[Alydar]

I think my day is the 16th and I'll log in but I'll be shocked if there is a seat I'd sit in left at the Civic center.

It seems as though some fans who had no or 1 seat last season now have seats. Too may fans are being shoved out when it should equal to the reduction in seating. That double points offer may have been a sneaky way to get some ticket agents and sugar daddies a bunch of prime cushions to sit on. Especially for the mens games. That's the price of monetization. I like winning more than I love "the good old days".