1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Ticket prices for Houston at the NCAA Tournament: March 24th, 2026, 12:25pm

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Looking at the ticket prices currently for the games in the South Regional of the NCAA Tournament. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Back to one-on-one with DP. Sponsored by the downtown Lincoln Foundation on 93-7 the ticket. Oscar Nation, under a groove. Getting down to Houston just for the fun of it. Just for the fun of it. So we're doing the March just to see what, if you're going, right, if you're going, if you do not have tickets,

if you do not have tickets just for Thursday, just for Thursday. Now, you're getting two games for the price of one, right? So we understand, we have to understand, we have to say that out loud. I don't know if it'll be the price of one, but yeah,

for one ticket. Well, no, I mean, that's just it. Here's the thing. It's a session. So the ticket sales are based on the session. And the session, there's session one, and then there's session two. Session one, Thursday, early on.

Right? Four teams, two games. Nebraska, Iowa, and then Houston, Illinois. And it is a home game for Houston in location, but it's not in the arena. This is not the arena that they normally play in. So different sight lines, different habits, different things, right? You got to dress different.

It's shared space. So you have four teams sharing, kind of maneuvering in the hallways in the back area. But Toyota Center is built for it. So, okay, fine. Text line, let me know. If you're going and do you have tickets. Webblanket says, yeah, Guy Lewis. Guy Lewis was that.

So Faislamma, Jamma, Baku. Can you name, how many of the, the Fy Slamma, JAMA starters can you name? Not many of them. I mean, I know Akeem Elijah won and Clyde Drexler went back there, but not many more than that. Basketball. Do you know how that team did? I know that they, along with last, so last year, Houston was, you know, obviously two points away from the national title. they've been chasing that title, you know, since the dunk at the end, right?

There's the NC State dunk at the buzzer that cost them the title. And so Houston still does not have one. Imagine that. You know, we talk about rimming out the half-court shot. Imagine losing on a dunk. On an air ball. Yeah, on an air-on-air to do a dunk. You talk about the Tanner from Vanderbilt having to live with that thing spinning out.

But imagine two of the greatest 30 players ever on the same team in college, losing to an air ball. Do you know that their freshman year, they lost to North Carolina? They lost to North Carolina in the freshman year. They lost to NC State. they lost to Georgetown. They lost to Reggie, that Patrick Ewing, Reggie Williams,

David Wingate, Michael Jackson, boyish team. They battled Kentucky. They battled, like this was a run, run, right? Of what was going on. Here's,

so there was a team in the middle. Lally, Misha, Larry Misho, who was their enforcer. He was their tough guy. They called him Mr. Meme, by the way, one of the great basketball nicknames. By Slamma Jama, you had the dream, plied the glide, Mr. Mien.

Like, they had some guys. Poor Alvin Franklin, who missed four of the biggest free throws in college basketball history. Fuck. The poor guy. The poor guy. Oh, my God, they were there. But, can you, again, it's one thing to lose by a shot that rims out,

another to lose on an air ball. It's another to lose on the airball because you couldn't make free throws. He was free throws. Reed Geddes, Benny Andrews came off the bench for them as well. David Rose was their seventh man, and Guy Lewis was the coach. But yeah, you're talking about having two. I don't know that we have that era like that, where guys go to a school because they don't stay.

Akeem didn't stay as full time. But I'll ask your opinion. How much do you know about Clyde Drexler? More from his trailblazers, you know, right? It's pro career. So I'm going to ask you a question, and then there's no wrong answer.

but if Michael Jordan doesn't exist, is Clyde Drexler then the best two in history? Because if Drexel plays in any other era, he's the guy. Like Akeem, if he doesn't play in the Jordan era, right? Because they won the titles to two years that Jordan doesn't play, right? Mm-hmm. But they don't win those titles of Jordan plays. Akeem doesn't win the titles that.

Drexler was on level with Jordan, except for he couldn't beat Jordan in the critical moments. Two of the 50 greatest players ever ever do it. Pretty crazy. Pretty crazy along the way. Tickets. And I asked the text line if there was anybody that was going. Yeah, he's there.

Okay. So we got, 7-432 says tickets already purchased, so I will see you down there. Penny, Penny was good. Yeah, even in the NBA, he was there. I'm a huge Drexler thing. 6493 says he has tickets, section 126, both sessions. 6493, come up, introduce yourself.

Because that's, I think that's where we're going to be. I think we're in the same section. He's going down with his, find out with his daughter. if you can drive to it, it's more affordable. There's no question. You're willing to drive the nine hours. Not sure what the gas. You're going to spend $200 in gas?

$300. Of course, the main hours. I think it takes close to like 13 hours to drive down there, doesn't it? I thought it was closer than that. I'm Googling. It could be wrong, but 12 hours and 40 minutes. The nine hours was the Indianapolis drive. Yes.

12 hours to Houston. Becky's made that drive. In fact, when we were moving here, she made that drive. Because we had a house in Houston. We'll ask her what that, what that. She did well once you got to Oklahoma. It was just getting to Oklahoma that made it a little more difficult. But for the first session,

and it depends on where you want to get your tickets. And of course, there are fees, fees attached to it. Just for grins and giggles. Section 417, 417, Upper Bowl, end of basket. So you're at one end of the court. in row 15, which is the last row in the building. That is the highest you can sit.

Row 15, Section 417. Bach, what do you think it costs you for two tickets to sit? These are the cheapest tickets available. Let's say 800 bucks. Oh, no. Better than that. $500. For two tickets?

No, each. Each, okay, yeah. 500 each. So you're going to spend $1,000. You're going to spend $200 a night in hotel to stay 25 minutes away. So $1,000,

let's say you're going to go Wednesday night and Thursday. Let's just say for game one, session one. So two nights. So let's say 400, 500 bucks for a hotel. hotel, a thousand for a pair of tickets, travel. So if you're driving, 400 bucks and cash. Yeah. And if you're flying more than that.

A thousand bucks a person. A thousand bucks. Even on our favorite convenient airline out of Omaha, it's 500 plus each way. So probably renting a car too, potentially, I would say. Well, if you're staying 25 minutes away from the stadium, you better rent a car. Right. Houston is not doing that. No. Houston is not. Houston don't love you like that.

Then their roads are not set up for you to, no, you need to do that. If you did the same thing on Ticketmaster, it's got a ticket master. Back row, cheapest per ticket costs, $562. each. Who we. Yeah, that's that's a price tag for you. That's a price tag for you. Man,

I'm going to find out what it is. So if they win, when they win, what Saturday's tickets. How about that? Yeah. We'll get that. We'll close out one of a moment. Come back.

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