The fiercest rivals in college basketball meet in the NCAA Tournament for the first time, Duke’s legendary Mike Krzyzewski will be coaching his last games, and carloads of diehards are moving heaven and earth for tickets.
The fiercest rivals in college basketball meet in the NCAA tournament for the first time, Duke’s legendary Mike Krzyzewski will be coaching his last games, and carloads of diehards are moving heaven and earth for tickets.when she watched from the stands as Mike Krzyzewski coached his first game for the Blue Devils. She’s determined to do whatever she can to be there in New Orleans for the Final Four this weekend for his last game, too.
The basketball gods have smiled upon this year’s March Madness, first with the historic three-game win streak of the Saint Peter’s Peacocks of Jersey City, the only 15-seed to make it to the elite eight before losing, and now with the matchup that nobody would believe had it been fiction.
As of Wednesday night, the cheapest ticket for the semifinals on StubHub, including fees, was $360 for a seat in the upper deck of the Superdome, the home of the New Orleans Saints football team. From that rarefied location, the hoops players look like insects that can be crushed between two fingers. Seats in sections closest to the court are going for at least $2,500.
O the game at Cameron! O Blue Devils! O humanity! What a wound Coach K’s last home game ripped in the hearts of Duke fans. The March 5 contest against North Carolina at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium was supposed to be a cakewalk of a swansong for the 75-year-old coach. Tickets sold for a minimum of $3,000. About 100 of Krzyzewski’s former players gathered for a group photo before the game. Pride, however, comes before a fall.
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