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Message: [QUOTE="Bjbod, post: 5213272, member: 11196"] Two years ago went to tourney and an all session pass was around $30-40 like Jelly Bean said, although Target Center assessed another $40 per ticket in those dreaded "convenience fees". Seems like I paid around $170 for two tickets when all was said and done. No reserved seats (except for the teams' contingents); went to the arena about 30 minutes prior to tip and found seats about 5 rows back on the corner of the court. Quarterfinal game attendance for the Iowa game was about 70% full, but I seem to recall they didn't use the upper tier of seating. Semis and final game could still get good seats by going about 45 minutes early. Mostly Iowa fans for the 3 games I saw. Last year I got an email shortly after Thanksgiving telling me I'd have the opportunity to buy tickets day prior to general public because of previous year's purchase. This time seats were reserved and the price was much higher, maybe around $350 after all their fees for two tix. Ordered within 15 minutes of seats being released and got tix about 15 rows up about even with the hoop. Caitlin Clark effect in full stride at this time, so arena mostly full for all Iowa games...even upper tier. Don't think they sold out reserved seats so eventually opened up general admission in the upper deck later on. They were even clearing the arena between sessions to be sure they got maximum turnstile effect. I understand the B1G wanting to move the tournament around but they're going to sell a lot fewer tickets this year than last, 1000's less. Watching games yesterday and today the arena was very empty; saw attendance for today's Iowa/Michigan St was around 7000 while Gainbridge seats 18,000. Part of the drop off is due to CC being gone, but most of that is the proximity to Iowa. Most of Iowa could drive to Minneapolis in 2-4 hours, more like 6-9 to Indy. Iowa did sell out for the entire season this year without Caitlin. 2023 attendance: 47,833 [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Big_Ten_women%27s_basketball_tournament"]2023 Big Ten women's basketball tournament - Wikipedia[/URL] 2024 attendance: 129,512 [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Big_Ten_women%27s_basketball_tournament"]2024 Big Ten women's basketball tournament - Wikipedia[/URL] If you look at each session's attendance in 2024 you'll see that every session was sold out...that's because you had to buy an all-session pass to get in the door. Even with more teams and 1 more game this year the attendance is going to be much, much lower. Final figures will be interesting. [/QUOTE]

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