BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- All-session tickets for the 2013 Ohio Valley
Conference Basketball Championship are now on sale and are just $60
through OVC schools' ticket offices until January 31. At Tech, The
Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center is open weekdays from 8
a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in-person
or over the phone by calling (931) 372-3940.
The OVC Championship will be held March 6-9 at Municipal
Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn.
Tennessee Tech fans wishing to sit in the lower level of Municipal
Auditorium with other Golden Eagle fans should purchase the
all-session tickets directly from their Athletics Ticket Office in
Eblen Center. Please note that reserved seating is limited and once
Tech's allotment is purchased, only general admission tickets will
be available.
A $60 all-session ticket includes admission to all eight sessions
of the OVC Championship, which includes seven men's games and seven
women's games (seating for women's games is all general admission).
Buying a ticket prior to January 31 means each game of the
Championship costs just $4.29 apiece.
After January 31 the price of an all-session ticket goes up to
$80.
Single session, general admission tickets will be on sale starting
in mid-February through the Municipal Auditorium;http://www.nashvilleauditorium.com/>
ticket office. Those tickets will be priced at $30 for a men's
session, $15 for a women's session and $5 per session for
students.
For the second season in a rowTickets in the lower arena will be
assigned via a quadrant seating assignment. That guarantees schools
participating in a given session will have the seats closest to the
court and grouped with their fans. Fans of schools not
participating in a specific session will sit in general admission
seats in the upper (balcony) level.
This season marks the first with 12 teams in the OVC as well as
the first year divisional play has been used. The OVC Tournament
will feature the top eight teams on each the men's and women's
side.
Seeding will be based on the following. The teams that finish in
first place in each division will earn the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds,
with the top seed going to the team with the best overall
conference winning percentage. Seeds 3-8 will be determined by
conference winning percentage, regardless of division.
This marks the third year the Championship has used a merit-based
format. The No. 1 and 2 seeds receive a double bye to the
semifinals while the No. 3 and 4 seeds received one bye into the
quarterfinals. The first round includes the No. 5 seed against the
No. 8 seed and the No. 6 seed against the No. 7 seed.