There is no doubt that a ticket to Saturday night’s matchup between the No. 17 Indiana Hoosiers and the No. 5 Purdue Boilermakers is in high demand.
Not only is it a ranked-ranked men’s Big Ten basketball game that will allow Purdue to lock up at least a share of the Big Ten regular-season title, the game also has huge implications as it relates to conference and NCAA tournament seeding. It’s also the first ranked-ranked matchup between these two schools to take place in Purdue since January 16, 1999 (which was the Bob Knight era).
Oh, and these teams don’t particularly love each other a ton. It’s definitely a hot ticket, but it is absolutely not worth the asking price of $48,500 per ticket for a pair that is inexplicably on StubHub:
Sure, you can get in the arena for about $300, but why pay that when you can [checks notes] spend nearly $100k for a really bad view?
That got us thinking about what you could buy for $97,000 that is better than those terrible seats.
- 48,500 Taco Bell bean burritos
- 3,592 copies of Top Gun: Maverick on Blu Ray 4k
- 2,771 Zach Edey shirseys as part of his NIL deal (nearly enough to buy one for each student in the student section of 2,800)
- This beach house in Delaware
- A 2022 Land Rover Range Rover
- Three nights in the Presidential Suite at the Park Hyatt in New York City
- Approximately 7,700 Drew Brees First Choice Breakfasts at Triple XXX Family Restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana