Bear Down Wildcats

Tickets go on sale this Thursday the 17th at 10AM PT.

Who all will be attending this season? This is pretty much an annual tradition for me and azcat49 now. I haven't seen anything about the $12 tickets yet, but those are damn near impossible to get anyways.

It's been basically an annual thing for me going back to Staples. The basketball itself is fantastic; the move to Vegas has just cranked it up a few notches.

It might be good to set up a quick meet and greet even if it's just to meet at some bar for one beer (sometimes that's all the time that can be found in Vegas) for the board.

You can eliminate that "pretty much" from your description my friend.

Y'all get your tickets to the best AZ party outside a Rosebowl as can be found!

I will be there. Looks like I can attend the semis and championship. Last year was my first year and decided I will be back every year!

Dosia wrote: Tickets go on sale this Thursday the 17th at 10AM PT.

I got an email that said tickets are going on presale tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. through Ticketmaster. Says you need code PAC12MBB to order early. You can get up to 8 tickets it looks like.

Thanks for the heads up

Crap I didnt get anything about a 12-12 deal this year. Maybe they didnt do it. Not seeing any presale info either

Already have 4 Staples tickets

I don't think they have gone on sale yet. Ticketmaster just barely put the event up a few hours ago, but no tickets available as of now. Soon

Dosia wrote:I don't think they have gone on sale yet. Ticketmaster just barely put the event up a few hours ago, but no tickets available as of now. Soon

I didn't give out the link since I thought it was going to be easy to get to. But I guess they must have hidden it so nobody could get to it.

https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/mgmgra ... -141651853" target="_blank

The only seats they were offering were in the nosebleeds a little off center court and in the upper part of the lower section, either behind the basket or in the corners. Pretty crap seats. For two all-session tickets they wanted over $800 for those two. Didn't get any. The email I got said that this "pre-sale" is going on through the 17th.

Looks like I'll be waiting until the schools put their seats on sale and call up either WSU or OSU, or another shit team and try to get tickets through their box office.

Also, I never saw anything about the $12 a session tickets. Maybe they figured they didn't need to do it anymore due to demand?

Ah bummer. I guess I will see what they have available Thursday morning.

PAC-12 BASKETBALL TOURANMENT TICKET UPDATE

The 2016 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament will be here before you know it. Once again, the tournament will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. We’re so proud of the support and passion demonstrated by our fans at this event. The Strip is literally taken over in a sea of red and blue. The deadline to request all-session passes from Arizona Athletics is Jan. 6. Make sure to get your request in now to enjoy a fun weekend of Arizona basketball in Las Vegas.

For more information or to put in a request, visit http://www.ArizonaWildcats.com/pac12vegas" target="_blank.

Current Wildcat Club members have 1st priority to request tickets. Demand for the All-Session passes is high across the conference, and we are working with the Pac-12 office to secure more tickets and make sure everyone knows that #VegasIsWildcatCountry.

Requests for the All-Session Tournament Passes can be made online following the steps below:

Login to your online account at ArizonaWildcats.com

http://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerc ... pList.html

Select "Postseason Tickets"
Select "Men's Basketball Pac-12 Tournament Application"
Enter quantity
Add to Cart and Check out
***The deadline to request tickets as part of the Arizona block is Jan. 6***

The following are possible ticket purchase limits based on priority point level:

POINTS MAX # AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE
7,500 or More 6 Tickets based on availability
1,500-7,499 4 Tickets based on availability
1-1,499 2 Tickets based on availability

1 more hour to go, and hopefully there are decent tickets available. Every year this gets more and more difficult to get tix.

https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/mgmgra ... ac12Social#" target="_blank

Here is the link Pac12 just tweeted. Hopefully in 40 mins they release a lot more seats cause these ones blow.

Link says no more tickets for this event.

I think they closed it and will re-open it in 20 mins. If what I saw is what they will be offering it was probably what VegasCatFan saw and they wanted $400 for nose bleed very last row seats. No thanks

It's open now. Just got 4 tickets

$265 each? ouch

The tournament is only a couple months away. Like last year, if anyone wants Friends & Family discounted hotel rates, send me a PM. Just need first and last name, number of rooms you want, and an email address you want the link to go to for the rooms. I believe they only put out X amount of rooms per hotel for this type of discount (its a large amount of rooms though), but I think last year you could still get deals pretty close to the tourney except possibly at the MGM which sold out. So, the sooner you book, I think you get a little bit better deal. Not positive though.

Also, as far as where the tourney is going to be held in 2017, I had heard conflicting things about it staying at the Grand Garden and also moving to the new arena. I was talking to a friend of mine that works at the Grand Garden and he said, at least as of meetings last week, that the tournament will move to the new arena in 2017. They want all high profile events to be held at the new place. Of course, if a VP gets a wild hair up his ass, everything could change again.

Dosia wrote:It's open now. Just got 4 tickets

All I see are nosebleed behind the baskets even after registering for an MGM account (when i first looked, the link said they might show more seats if I signed up for an account).

Says that individual sessions will go on sale begining Feb 16.

Waited until prices started falling on Stubhub before I bit the bullet. Got my tickets today in Section 9 Row C, which is right in the middle of ....... the UCLA section.

Where is everybody else sitting?

Same place as last year. Floor level, right in the corner. See you there VCF

Going to continue to wait it out. I see that tickets have fallen significantly over the past few weeks. There are also a lot popping up out of nowhere. How shocking.

azcat49 wrote:Same place as last year. Floor level, right in the corner. See you there VCF

Those were great seats. Hope to meet up again this year for a few drinks. My friend didn't come through with any free drink coupons this year. Looks like I'll have to pay for them this time

Sec 106 row gg.

I like the way the tournament is shaping up. If the higher seeds advance we would play Colorado, Oregon, and Utah......the Payback tournament. Miller should not have any issue motivating the team.

So as of today, AZ plays at 2:30 as the 4th seed. As I understand it, Cal still has the tiebreaker because it was a series split and the next tiebreaker is their win over Oregon (they went 1-1 against em). UA can move up to the 3 seed with a Win Sat plus a Cal loss at Tempe.

We get the winner of Rado and Wash State. Im guessing it will be Colorado. Fairly tough matchup, but I do think the cats can pull it off if they can contain Josh Scott. Should be a good one.

So who does everyone have?

Wednesday

UDub
CU
USC
Oregon St

Thursday

Oregon
AZ
Cal
UTAH

FRIDAY
Oregon
CAL

Saturday

Cal

Hoping cats can upset Oregon but not confident in this match up

Would love to win 3 revenge games

Colorado, Oregon and then Utah

Just not sure we are good enough to win those 3 in 3 consecutive days

Depending on how we do in the tourney what does everyone think our ceiling and flood is for NCAA seeding?

3 and 6?

Floor is 7 if we get rocked by CU Thursday. But most likely I'd think:

7 seed-blown out by CU
6 seed-close loss to CU
5 seed-beat CU and lose in semis, possibly still a 5 if we lose in the title game
4 seed-close title loss or close title win
3 seed-we win the tournament looking impressive the whole way and a couple other teams are upset in their tournaments

Probably on our way to a 5

azcat49 wrote:So who does everyone have?

Wednesday

UDub
CU
USC
Oregon St

Thursday

Oregon
AZ
Cal
UTAH

FRIDAY
Oregon
CAL

Saturday

Cal

Hoping cats can upset Oregon but not confident in this match up

i'm thinking the tournament will go a little bit sideways, given what the pac has been like this year, but here are my homeresque predictions:

WED
#8 WASHINGTON vs. #9 STANFORD - 12:10pm PST (P12N) ....... uw
#5 COLORADO vs. #12 WASHINGTON STATE - 2:40pm* (P12N) ....... 'rado
#7 USC vs. #10 UCLA - 6:10pm (P12N) ....... ucla
#6 OREGON STATE vs. #11 ARIZONA STATE - 8:40pm* (P12N) ....... osu


THU
Quarterfinal, #8/9 vs. #1 OREGON - 12:10pm PST (P12N) ....... uw
Quarterfinal, #5/12 vs. #4 ARIZONA - 2:40pm* (P12N) ....... UA
Quarterfinal, #7/10 vs. #2 UTAH - 6:15 (P12N) ....... 'tah
Quarterfinal, #6/11 vs. #3 CALIFORNIA - 8:45pm* (FS1) ....... osu


FRI
Semifinal - 6:15pm PST (P12N) ....... UA
Semifinal - 8:45 pm* (FS1) ....... 'tah


SAT
Championship - 7:15pm PST (FS1) ....... UA


* anticipated tip-off time

note the P12N / FS1 split coverage

I like your optimism dirtbags. And there might be some upsets. I don't see UW beating Oregon though. Oregon and Cal are so strong. I could see USC beating Utah in the second round if I was going to pick an upset.

ASUHATER! wrote:Floor is 7 if we get rocked by CU Thursday. But most likely I'd think:

7 seed-blown out by CU
6 seed-close loss to CU
5 seed-beat CU and lose in semis, possibly still a 5 if we lose in the title game
4 seed-close title loss or close title win
3 seed-we win the tournament looking impressive the whole way and a couple other teams are upset in their tournaments

Probably on our way to a 5

The parity is so strong this year, could definitely get a 2 seed if Arizona wins the tournament title.

Just shocks me the lack of respect our league is getting with those doing the mock brackets. This league had 10 good teams. Heck, UCLA beat Kentucky like a drum. I THINK the league was the most difficult to win on the road that shows you how deep the league was. I think we had 10 teams in the top 80 or so RPI wise.

If we lose Thursday we should be no worse than a 6 seed. I think if we get to the Final we should a 4 and we we run it, a borderline 3 seed.

I think Oregon should get a 2 seed and I think Utah and Cal are in the 4-6 range as well. Hoping we keep rolling and now that Gabe has that monkey off his back he lights up Vegas bigger than the lights on the strip

Bigger question, with so many teams having good years along with the tourney being up for grabs, do we have more rival fans this year? Do they cut into our numbers?

azcat49 wrote:Bigger question, with so many teams having good years along with the tourney being up for grabs, do we have more rival fans this year? Do they cut into our numbers?

Maybe a little, but every year this tournament will be played, the vast majority of fans will be U of A fans and it won't be close.

azcat49 wrote:Bigger question, with so many teams having good years along with the tourney being up for grabs, do we have more rival fans this year? Do they cut into our numbers?

I'd think so. The three best basketball fan bases besides ours are Utah, Oregon and Colorado. Instead of it being 80% Arizona fans it'll probably only be like 50-60% this year

ChooChooCat wrote:

azcat49 wrote:Bigger question, with so many teams having good years along with the tourney being up for grabs, do we have more rival fans this year? Do they cut into our numbers?

Maybe a little, but every year this tournament will be played, the vast majority of fans will be U of A fans and it won't be close.

Not really. Going to be McKale North as usual.

Was at dinner last night for a friend's birthday and people I had never met before are going. Me and the usual crew are going. Believe Arizona is the only one who sold out its allotment again this year. Arizona fans are loyal and travel, gonna be tough to keep them out.

azcat49 wrote:So who does everyone have?

Wednesday

UDub
CU
USC
Oregon St

Thursday

Oregon
AZ
Cal
UTAH

FRIDAY
Oregon
CAL

Saturday

Cal

Hoping cats can upset Oregon but not confident in this match up

I think OR will beat Cal. But otherwise, this is spot on.

azcat49 wrote:So who does everyone have?

Wednesday

UDub
CU
USC
Oregon St

So glad to see Colorado facing us when they win, us facing Oregon on a win, and UCLA nowhere to be seen. Someone who attends this tourney tell me how many Bruins show. Honestly think UCLA fans will be out numbered in the stands by Arizona, Utah, and/or Oregon fans attending the SC/UCLA game for the spectacle of it.

Colorado has represented well in the recent years. By my eye test #2 behind us.

Anyone have 1-3 extra tickets for Thursday or know of anyone? I will be driving into town Wednesday night. I a) don't trust the ticketing websites since they all seemed to be hard tickets that need to be mailed or picked up and b) the ticket prices+service charges+fees are insane.

On a side note this will be my first Pac-12 tournament - how easy will it be to score tickets after either the Oregon game at noon or the other teams for possibly Friday/Saturday tickets?

Plenty of scalpers in the hall ways leading to the arena.

baycat93 wrote:Colorado has represented well in the recent years. By my eye test #2 behind us.

I think it's a toss-up between Colorado and Utah. To me it looked like Utah had the second best turnout last year

Utah has a good fanbase that can become extreme when they have a winner out there. Its only a 5.5 hour drive to Vegas, and everyone up there has friends and family in Vegas. If Mormons don't live in Salt Lake or Utah County, they are probably in Vegas or Mesa. Think they are pretty safely #2 behind us. Just count your lucky stars BYU isn't in the Pac 12, they'd at worst match us there.

Yeah if Utah is in the semis or finals and we aren't it will be a huge majority Utah fans.

azcat49 wrote:Plenty of scalpers in the hall ways leading to the arena.

Be careful of scalpels inside. Security was kicking out buyers and sellers

Frybry02 wrote:

azcat49 wrote:Plenty of scalpers in the hall ways leading to the arena.

Be careful of scalpels inside. Security was kicking out buyers and sellers

Tough crowd!