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Virginia Tech Can't Even Sell 250 Tickets for Illinois Game?

Mar 16, 2007 – 8:08 AM
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Michael David Smith

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I hope I'm misunderstanding this:

Schools received only 250 tickets to the game, but the Illini picked up 100 more that were returned by, ironically, Virginia Tech.

Did I really read that right? Virginia Tech was allotted 250 ducats to today's NCAA Tournament first-round game in Columbus, and they couldn't even find 250 people who wanted them? I wasn't expecting either team to have home-court advantage tonight (Blacksburg, Va. and Champaign, Ill., are both almost exactly 300 miles from Columbus), but if Illinois is getting some of the tickets that were supposed to go to Virginia Tech, that's a good sign for the Illini.

I complained yesterday about the empty seats in Winston-Salem, NC, but I refuse to believe schools like Illinois and Virginia Tech won't be able to fill an arena that's just five hours away from campus. If only the Illinois fans are showing up, a 12-5 upset is likely.
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