MANHATTAN, Kan. – Season tickets for Kansas State’s highly-anticipated 2018-19 home men’s basketball schedule will go on sale Monday, June 11, athletic department officials announced today.
Season ticket prices remain unchanged for the Wildcats, who return 10 lettermen from a squad that won 25 games and advanced to the Elite Eight for the 12th time in school history and the first time since 2010. Fans have a variety of ticket packages and prices from which to choose, including the Pick 5 mini plan.
With the Wildcat 4-Pack, fans can purchase four season tickets in the bench (sections 1-2, 10-17, 26-27), general admission (sections 24-25) and/or Cat Cushion areas (sections 13-14, 26) at $900, $1,100 or $1,200, depending on location, for a savings up to $95 per ticket.
Young Alumni packages are available for all K-State undergraduate degree recipients in the past five years (December 2013 to May 2018). These ticket packages are $200 and just $100 for those with Young Alumni football season tickets with an option to utilize the 5-month payment plan for $20 per month. Young Alumni can purchase up to two season tickets at the discounted rate. Young Alumni season ticket holders can select seats in any open location, excluding chairbacks in sections 5-7, with no Ahearn Fund seat donation required.
Season tickets will be available online at www.kstatesports.com/tickets starting Monday, June. 11. The first 500 accounts that order or renew season tickets on the first day will receive a free NCAA Elite Eight rally towel, in addition to all the early-bird (Friday, June 29) and priority deadline (Friday, July 20) specials.
Early-bird and priority deadlines are set for Friday, June 29, and Friday, July 20, respectively. Early-bird renewals will receive a $10 discount off the season processing fee when ordering online, an additional $15 savings off the fee when paying in full online by e-check and a five-month credit card payment option. Priority renewals will receive priority seating selections, a four-month credit card payment option and a promo code for 20 percent off in the Online Team Store.
Current season-ticket holders should receive their renewal information in the mail by the first week of June and have until Friday, July 20 to arrange payment and retain their seats for the 2018-19 season. New full season-ticket requests will be able to select their seat during the ordering process from any seat location available last season. Click here for a preview of what is available.
An Ahearn Fund contribution is required for all premium, chairback and cushioned seating. Specific required giving levels by section are listed at www.AhearnFund.com.
The Ticket Office will also utilize an online seat selection process, similar to football season tickets, with all season ticket holders who have purchased by July 20 receiving an appointment time to add, relocate or select new ticket locations. Additional chairback and bench seats in Section 18 will be available during this process.
Like the past few seasons, all season ticket holders will receive concessions discounts including $1 off all hot dogs, popcorn, pretzels and large souvenir fountain drinks at any of the main concession stands.
With the Pick 5 mini-plan, fans can purchase five vouchers that can be redeemed for five tickets of their choice for any non-conference game or any mid-week Big 12 game (excluding Big Monday matchups and the Kansas game) for only $50 with the price set to increase to $75 on October 1.
In addition to the home schedule, season ticket holders and Ahearn Fund members will have the first opportunity to pre-order tickets for the Wildcat Classic at Sprint Center against Vanderbilt on Saturday, December 22.
Tickets are priced at $150 for courtside, $50 for lower-level sides, $25 for lower-level corners and $15 for lower-level ends and upper-level sides at the Sprint Center. Season ticket holders who purchase by July 20 can receive lower-level side tickets for $40, lower-level corners for $20 and lower-level ends and upper-level sides for $10.
K-State officials are still working to complete this year’s non-conference schedule. The schedule will be highlighted by visits from fellow NCAA Tournament squads Kansas, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech and West Virginia and NIT participants Baylor and Oklahoma State.
All-Big 12 selections Dean Wade (16.2 ppg., 6.2 rpg.) and Barry Brown, Jr. (15.9 ppg., 3.1 rpg.) form the core of a group of 10 lettermen returning for the Wildcats in 2018-19. Wade and Brown were among the top scoring tandems in the country, ranking seventh and eighth, respectively, in scoring in the Big 12 and accounting for nearly 44 percent of the team’s scoring. Brown scored in double figures in a team-best 29 games, just one ahead of Wade’s 28, while the two combined for 22 20-point games. The Wildcats also return rising juniors Xavier Sneed (11.1 ppg., 5.1 rpg.) and Makol Mawien (6.8 ppg., 3.4 rpg.) as well as point guards, senior Kamau Stokes(9.0 ppg., 3.4 apg.) and sophomore Cartier Diarra (7.1 ppg., 2.0 apg.). Sneed averaged 13.8 points and 7.0 rebounds in the Wildcats’ four-game run in the NCAA Tournament en route to earning NCAA South Regional All-Tournament honors with Brown.
Fans can purchase season tickets in a variety of ways, including toll free at (800) 221.CATS (2287), online at www.kstatesports.com/tickets and in-person at the Athletics Ticket Office located in Bramlage Coliseum.
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