It’s not too far, and it’s not obscenely expensive.
Michigan men’s basketball will play in its eighth national-championship game Monday night, against UConn, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The Wolverines advanced after beating Arizona, 91-73, in the Final Four on Saturday.
Tickets are technically sold out for Monday’s championship game, but they still are readily accessible.
How to get tickets to the NCAA Tournament national championship game?
There are thousands of tickets available on secondary markets, such as StubHub, where the get-in price for a ticket as of late Saturday night was just over $200 per seat for the upper (600) level. There also were tickets available in the $200-$300 range in the 400 level. The cheapest ticket in the lowest (100) level was just over $600.
The tickets were “selling fast” late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, according to StubHub, as Michigan fans clearly were swarming to check out the inventory after the win over Arizona. More than 1,500 tickets were purchased between 11:45 p.m. Saturday and 12:45 a.m. Sunday, on StubHub alone.
There likely will be many more tickets hitting the secondary markets, though, in the coming hours, given that two teams’ fan bases might be looking to offload their championship-game tickets. Arizona and Illinois lost in the Final Four on Saturday. Illinois had the biggest share of the crowd at Lucas Oil, which seats more than 70,000 for basketball. (Michigan had the second-biggest share of the crowd.)
There were more than 3,000 tickets listed on SeatGeek around 1 a.m. Sunday, with a get-in price of $240.
There were nearly 700 listings on Vivid Seats around 1 a.m. Sunday, with a get-in price of $203.
Tickets to the Final Four were sold three ways — for Saturday’s semifinal games, for Monday’s championship game only, or for the entire package of three games. And fans who bought the entire package who saw their teams lose Saturday appear to be selling, as inventory on StubHub was increasing in the early morning hours Sunday.
Given the proximity to the Final Four in Indianapolis, Illinois (No. 1) and Indiana (No. 2) were the top two states for buyers and sellers of tickets on StubHub, company officials said last week. Michigan was No. 3.
It’s only about 4.5 hours by car from Metro Detroit to Indianapolis.
Each participating Final Four school was allotted nearly 4,000 tickets, which were quickly spoken for after the regionals last week. For Michigan, according to an athletic-department spokesperson, 3,159 tickets were used for “internal use” and to sell to donors and season-ticket holders, and 675 were allotted to students. Michigan received nearly 5,400 requests for Final Four tickets, the spokesperson said.
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This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: Tickets to see Michigan in NCAA championship game are available
Reporting by Tony Paul, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
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