I dunno if this link will work. If so, these are shocking prices for the Zags at T-Mobile Arena. For a college basketball game? Hoo boy! If not, go to the T-Mobile Arena link for November 26.
This is a dynamic link, so I'm not sure.
Just tested it and it's working at the moment.
Maybe tix through the Duke ticket office would be better. I'm not holding my breath
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
Here's a better link. Continental Tire Challenge: Duke vs. Gonzaga
That page lists prices of $799, $499, $299, $169, $129, $99, $59, $49, $39. But when you try to buy tickets, you get instant inflation! Upper deck prices of available seats run from $225 to $2,000. Lower deck prices are $80 (2 seats remaining) to $8,000. Floor seats are $15,000. There are only a handful of seats left in any section.Two of the most storied programs in college basketball like you've never seen them before! Duke and Gonzaga face off in the Continental Tire Challenge, which asks the question, "Sure, you can take it to the hoop, but can you change a tire?" Watch returning stars Drew Timme and Mark Williams operate the hydraulic jacks while newcomers Chet Holmgren and Paolo Banchero remove the lug nuts!
Gonzaga is led by head coach Mark Few, who knows his way around a car. And Duke is enjoying its last season under head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who believes in a tight (tire) rotation. Tickets available now!
The ticketing site mixes both original sales and re-sales. My recollection is that the game basically sold out right when tickets went on sale about 4 months ago (I tried to get them the first day and was shut out of anything on the lower level at face value).
I was able to buy re-sale, albeit via the ASX site, a couple of days later at above face value, but not crazy, prices. I suspect with the announcement of Coach K's retirement plus the growing excitement about Gonzaga being #1 after Timme decided not to go to the NBA, demand has gone up and prices with it.
From a Chronicle article on a meeting yesterday of the Duke Academic Council (the faculty governance body) (emphasis added):
Wolfe has been Duke's point man on Covid-19 and to some extent the ACC's point man on Covid so if he's saying Duke needs to lead by only letting in those who are vaccinated, I have to guess that there's a good chance that's the way it's going to be....“How do you anticipate handling Cameron Indoor Stadium crowds?” asked Professor of Medicine Harvey Cohen. “I’m thinking it sounds hard to distance.”
“It’s a small, dense stadium—that’s what makes it great. But that’s also not ideal in this situation,” said Associate Professor of Medicine Cameron Wolfe. “We’ve already been going back and reevaluating the ventilation system. … What worked for the players last year up until March Madness is that they were masked and spaced, and they didn’t have the chance to be vaccinated, whereas I think there’s a really great opportunity here for letting people in who are vaccinated. We should lead in that regard.” ...
If you want to go to games at Cameron this season, you'd better get vaccinated.
Even forcing people to take a risk by coming up with a fake is potentially helpful. And it would be risky for anyone caught, as I don't think Duke would be very accepting of fraud, even from its known donor group. There's a pretty long line of wanna-be season ticket holders out there.
It's a no-brainer for Duke to require proof of vaccination for games in Cameron, and they need to announce it NOW to give the recalcitrant a chance to finally get vaccinated.
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
I expect that the problem with attempts to use fraudulent proof of vaccination for entry to Cameron will most likely arise not from season-ticket holders or their family members, who might risk forfeiting their remaining tickets (including those for the UNC game) and thereby losing the benefit of their Iron Dukes donations, but from people using tickets that are sold by season-ticket holders to strangers through online brokers like StubHub. Because this will be K's last season, the demand for tickets -- and in turn the premium that people are willing to pay -- is going to be unprecedented. While most season ticket holders will probably still prefer to use their own seats, many will find the lure of easy money difficult to resist. So we'll probably have a number of people buying tickets in the aftermarket and attending just one game. For those folks, the potential consequences of getting caught using a fake vaccination card are not nearly as severe, so the risk may be worth it.
Ideally, it would be great if Duke could figure out a way to flag those tickets that have been transferred or sold for single-game use to trigger an alert in the bar code readers, and require those people to go through a separate entry line where their proof of vaccination cards might be subject to closer scrutiny. But that's probably impractical.
I agree that whatever fraud mechanisms might protect against regulars will not work as well for any re-sales, and I would never assume that it is even possible to catch all cases of fraud/cheating. I still think requiring vaccinations will help. It's an extra hurdle, and it will at least thin unvaccinated portion of the crowd a little. It will create a safer environment than doing nothing, at a minimum. The primary goal from Duke's point of view is to protect the team. Anything that helps that is a plus, even if it will never be perfect.
It looks like vaccination will be required to enter Cameron.
I guess it's already too late to start now and be fully vaccinated by October 30, the date of the exhibition game. CTC coming up even sooner, of course. By this point, though, I've got little sympathy for the unvaccinated.