The NCAA tournament is considered one of the year's biggest sporting events, right up there with the Super Bowl, golf majors and any of those Jake Paul fights.
But the difference between those events and the tourney, it seems, is you can get into the Big Dance for little more than the cost of a brewski. At least, that's what's been revealed on SeatGeek — where you could find tickets to any of the Friday sessions for as low as $8. Even some of the best seats were only going for $12, as relayed by Outkick.
And that was just for the games in Memphis. Things weren't much different for those being held in Spokane, Wash., where you could pick up a seat for as little as $9.
Granted, the cheapest seats are for the early afternoon tilts and that makes sense. People gotta work, after all. These days, they also have to be coaxed into getting off their couch and looking away from their phones to go out and about. Now, they can look at their phones and attend a live basketball game for less than the cost of a burrito bowl at Chipotle.
But it's not that cheap everywhere. Just in select cities, hopefully near you.
"For comparison, fans hoping to watch games in Indianapolis or Brooklyn better be ready to open their wallets. Tickets to those games start at $236," wrote David Hookstead of Outkick. "I guess the draw of Duke and Wisconsin in Brooklyn and Purdue playing close to home in Indianapolis is a better draw than Houston in Memphis."
In other words, fans should keep rooting for upsets, which has always been a staple of March Madness. After all, the smaller the fanbase, the better the chance tournament officials will need to fill the seats and offer tickets at a discounted rate.
That just sounds like a win for everyone.
