Demand high for tickets

By By Bill Cross

Thursday, January 27, 2005

More than a thousand students who tried to get tickets to upcoming Kansas men’s basketball games against Texas and Missouri during this week’s redemption period were entered into a lottery and will be notified of their status today.

The first 3,800 students who went to the Allen Fieldhouse ticket windows this week were given tickets up front. Associate athletics director Jim Marchiony said everyone who went on Monday received a ticket.

He said 1,050 students who tried to redeem on Tuesday were entered into a lottery for the remaining 200 student tickets. The drawing is all-or-nothing, so winning students will receive tickets to Saturday’s game against Texas and Monday’s game against Missouri. Students awaiting their lottery fate were frustrated with the new system. Last year, students were guaranteed tickets during a week-long redemption period.

“It’ll suck if I don’t get them, but I guess it’s a pretty fair system,” Luke Fast, Salina senior, said. “I’ll just try to watch the games on TV.”

Marchiony said the new system was instituted to create a less-packed student section.

“We’ve been working very closely with the fire marshal to be sure that there is no overcrowding,” he said.

Students who entered the lottery but do not get tickets will be entitled to a refund of $5 per game, Marchiony said.

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