Iowa slashes basketball ticket prices

Iowa's athletics department has cut the prices for all of its men's basketball tickets, including a substantial cut for midweek non-conference games.

Iowa slashed public season tickets to $278, a $58 reduction from last year. Faculty/staff tickets were reduced by $56 to $238 for a season ticket. Student ticket prices remain unchanged.

Single-game ticket prices also were cut. All weekend Big Ten games were reduced by $2 to $25. All midweek Big Ten games, the ACC-Big Ten Challenge match-up against Virginia Tech and the Drake game are $20 a ticket. The other non-conference games cost $12 a ticket.

"One of the things we did was we addressed something our fans have been frustrated with for a while, and that's the pricing structure of the non-conference games," said Rick Klatt, Iowa's associate athletics director for external affairs. "So the bulk of our reduction comes in adjusting those prices a little bit."

For season-ticket holders, the total price comes out as $21 for weekend Big Ten games, $17 for the midweek Big Ten, Virginia Tech and Drake games, and $10 for non-conference games.

Iowa students can attend two games free this year - against Virginia Tech and an undetermined Big Ten game. Klatt said his office has sold 990 student season tickets so far, already equaling last year's number. Klatt said the student seating area will be altered toward the visiting bench this year.

The basketball schedule is not finalized, but the schedule's groundwork can be found

here.