It’s all Madness from Here on out

Some games featuring teams at the top of the rankings will be played before their respective conference tournaments can begin.  For most of these teams, avoiding injuries will be a top priority, but nobody is going to be holding back when conference titles are on the line.
 

Kansas will try to win the Big 12 regular season outright against a Texas team that’s getting closer and closer to Durrant’s last game.
 

Plummeting Florida will be grasping to hang on to anything it can, even a cheerleader’s pom-pom, when they meet Kentucky this weekend. 
 

Then, in a classic rivalry gone horribly uncompelling, Duke and North Carolina will meet at the Dean Smith Center.
 

NCAA Basketball tickets to these and other great games will be available at StubHub.com. 

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A Salute to Small Bidness

It’s championship week, and the automatic bids are going to start pouring into the NCAA Tournament.  For a lot of so-called “mid-majors” the only way into the Dance is a ticket paid for with a lot of sweat in a conference tourney.
 

This week isn’t about the UCLAs and Ohio States of the basketball world.  It’s about the Central Connecticut States and Austin Peays and Virginia Commonwealths. 
 

Somebody’s going to make it out of the “special” conferences, and into a 16 seed, and this week is for those guys.  Right now, as of Friday night, pretty much every D-I basketball team in the country can entertain dreams of March Madness, and that’s a wonderful feeling.  Hope.  Let’s just bask in it for a moment, shall we. 
 

For every just-happy-to-be-here team, and every hardworking collegiate athlete who doesn’t get paid and never will to play a game they love, for every student who screams in vain, and every tear wiping mom in the stands, we at StubHub.com salute you.
 

Sport, as good and as true and as pure as you’re going to see in this world will be played in small gyms around the nation this weekend.  Be a part of it.  Get NCAA tickets to a conference tournament and experience one of the best parts about amateur athletics: Championships Week.  


 

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