The hottest ticket in Lincoln right now is not Nebraska football. Nor is it for the women’s highly ranked volleyball team.
It’s the Nebraska men’s basketball game against the Kansas Jayhawks in prime time on Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
While the game is not sold out yet, it is expected to be before game time. And expect many of the nearly 15,000 seats in the arena to be filled with Kansas crimson and blue, especially with the relatively short drive-time or airplane distance between the schools.
Indeed, many Nebraska and Kansas basketball fans have had the game circled on their calendar since the two schools announced plans for a two-game home-and-home series, which started last December at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence.
Based on a HuskerOnline review of current prices in the secondary brokerage market as of early November, seats in the upper level at Pinnacle are hovering around $95 to $100 a seat. Lower-level seats are about $200 each, though those seats are less plentiful. A few parking passes are also for sale.
Ticket brokers say those prices have held steady over the last month. But they expect the market to heat up closer to game day, especially if Nebraska -- perhaps more so than Kansas -- gets off to a strong start on the season.
