Some of men’s college basketball’s tops in the nation — UConn, Marquette, Villanova, Seton Hall, Creighton and St. John’s among others — will compete next week in the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.
The tournament starts on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 and ends on Saturday, March 16, 2024, with the title game.
Tickets are currently on sale now and can be purchased at secondary ticket sites like StubHub and VividSeats.
Fans game buy single-game tickets or full or all-session passes. Prices vary according to game and ticket package so check out each site carefully. Prices will rise as the teams are slotted for games and as the tourney unwinds.
Don’t forget Vividseats.com and StubHub is a secondary ticket market place, where existing ticket holders sell their tickets, usually at higher prices than face value. And other fees can cost up to 56 percent more than the actual tickets themselves.
AP Story
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Marquette coach Shaka Smart is optimistic that Tyler Kolek’s oblique injury won’t knock the 2022-23 Big East player of the year out for the remainder of the season.
Smart acknowledged Tuesday that “barring a miracle,” Kolek won’t play in the eighth-ranked Golden Eagles’ two regular-season games Wednesday against No. 2 UConn (26-3, 16-2 Big East) and Saturday at Xavier (15-14, 9-9). Marquette (22-7, 13-5) had announced Monday that the 6-foot-3 guard wouldn’t be available for those games and would be re-evaluated before next week’s Big East Tournament in New York.
“We feel very confident that he will be able to play at some point very soon,” Smart said Tuesday.
Kolek suffered the injury during a 91-69 victory over Providence on Wednesday. Smart said after the game that Kolek told him he made a pass, twisted his body and felt it. He left the game early in the second half, returned briefly and then left again for good.
The injury caused Kolek to miss Marquette’s 89-75 loss at No. 10 Creighton on Saturday. Smart…
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