As a 9 seed playing Notre Dame in South Bend. Would love that. But unless ND loses to Southern Cal, they are going to be higher than an 8.
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If we can’t get a home game, this is probably the next best thing. While tickets may not be plentiful for IU, weather permitting, would be a great scene for IU folks to show up by the thousands in SB. Been years since have been to a game there, but do they still show the game on big screen in the basketball arena?
IU fans, nor any visiting fan, can show up “by the thousands.” The visiting team gets the normal allotment of tickets just as if it were a regular season game, which is around 2,500 tickets. Same would hold true if IU hosts a game. It’s going to be a true home game for the higher seed.
I’ve lived in South Bend. If it’s 2,500 tickets, they’ll be taken by IU fans. There’s an awful lot of crimson up there. Sports bars and the like were always packed with cream and crimson during IU games.
But it’s the reversible jacket fans you’re seeing. They only care about the basketball program. They aren’t showing up for football. IU will have no issue selling out its small allotment of tickets for the game but don’t expect to see 10,000 IU fans inside of Notre Dane stadium just because SouthBend has IU people are in the area. I would bet many of those same fans are attending ND games in full ND gear during the year and then when basketball rolls around, out come the red jackets and dust off the mothballs.
I don’t expect to see 10k up there. And all the ones I knew, or talked to, were IU alumni. I lot of those reversible jacket fans traded in their jackets back when RMK was fired. I’m sure there are still some, but the ones I knew were hardcore IU.
I imagine there will be plenty more than the allotment of 2500 for the first time IU has had a good team in forever. I imagine I’ll be getting mine off resale, as I’d guess thousands of others will too. Maybe not 10,000 but significantly more than the allotment.
