Three Dollars Can Get You A Seat At Tonight’s UNLV-Akron Basketball Game Thanks To Ticket On Secondary Reseller Market
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
It’s hard to say you can’t afford to attend a UNLV basketball game Tuesday evening when Seat Geek is selling a secondary market ticket for three bucks for the Rebels vs Akron hoops game.
Formula One may have priced out Las Vegas locals with their astronomically high ticket prices, but there’s a seat with your name on it in section 102, row T if you have $3 to spare.
Then again, if you want to buy a ticket for tonight’s game straight from UNLV it’s not going to break your bank account.
The cheapest ticket for the game is $11 under the UNLV basketball ticket chart.
The UNLV vs Akron game is a non-conference, tier three game — the lowest price category in the ticket chart. And the cheapest ticket in that category is 11 bucks.
UNLV sports has tried to make their games affordable in a very competitive sports market where the NFL Raiders and NHL Golden Knights sell among the most expensive average ticket in their respective leagues.
The two-win, three-loss UNLV squad played one of its better halves of the season against the Zips, taking a 41-31 lead into the halftime break.
In the second half, the Rebs enjoyed a double-digit lead for much of the time.
But the Zips made their push, cutting a ten-point deficit to a mere two points with less than a minute to go. Akron actually hoisted a three-point attempt in the final seconds that could have given the Zips the lead.
But the long shot was way off and UNLV held on, winning, 72-70, to even their record at three wins and three losses.
For UNLV, Luis Rodriguez scored 13, while Kalib Boone and Dedan Thomas, Jr. each contributed a dozen points. Jackie “The Microwave” Johnson III added 11 and Justin Webster chipped in with nine.
“You can’t simulate the way your heart rate accelerates,” UNLV coach Kevin Kruger said of the Rebels hanging on for the win.
“We got timid. We got to stay on the gas. We tried to take our ball and go home,” the UNLV coach said. “We went side to side. We didn’t have the same crispness we had in the first 37 minutes.”
