How much are Duke-UNC tickets for the Final Four?

Want to see the first-ever Duke-UNC NCAA Tournament matchup in the Final Four? Be prepared to pay a lot of money for tickets.

There has been a ton of excitement this week about the first-ever Duke-UNC NCAA Tournament matchup in New Orleans for the Final Four. The stakes are extremely high for both programs, with the Tar Heels looking to help Hubert Davis become the first coach to ever win a national championship in his first full season while the Blue Devils seek to keep Mike Krzyzewski’s final season alive for at least one more game.

While the two bitter rivals have plenty of history against each other, the fact that this is the first tournament meeting between them raises the interest level in the game even more. TBS will undoubtedly get record ratings for the contest while fans looking to get a seat in the arena will have to pay up to land tickets.

How much are Duke-UNC Final Four tickets?

In short, a lot. Ticket prices have ballooned on the secondary market since the matchup was finalized, with the average price on StubHub for tickets coming in just under $1,000. If you want to get courtside seats for the game, those will run over $32,000 on StubHub, an insane amount of money to watch two hours of college basketball.

TickPick, another secondary market ticketing site, notes that the average price for Final Four tickets in New Orleans was $286 when March Madness started. Once UNC defeated Saint Peter’s on Sunday night to secure their matchup against Duke, those prices skyrocketed to $844 a seat.

It isn’t surprising that people are willing to pay through the nose to get inside the Superdome for one of the rare firsts left in college basketball. No one will forget the outcome of this game and a lot of people will claim they were in New Orleans for it, but the privilege of actually seeing Duke-UNC with your own eyes is not going to be cheap.

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