Student season-ticket sales are up 17% while overall season-tickets are up 47% from last seasonGETTY IMAGES
Seton Hall has a "stacked non-conference schedule" for men's basketball this season that has fans "buying season-tickets in droves" for the No. 12 team in the country, according to Adam Zagoria of the Newark STAR-LEDGER. Seton Hall AD Bryan Felt said, "The fans are certainly speaking loud and clear. In terms of our numbers, too, it's been tremendous. I think student season-ticket sales are up 17 percent and overall season-tickets are up 47 percent." Zagoria noted in recent years, Seton Hall has "never opened the upper level of Prudential Center for more than two games, but this year there are already half a dozen games -- and counting -- for which the upper bowl will be open." The lower bowl capacity is "approximately 10,000," and when the upper bowl is included, it is "about 18,000." Felt said that the school has been "hesitant in the past to open up the upper level without being confident tickets would sell." He added, "The last thing we want to do is open it up and it has that kind of cavernous feeling. Then that doesn't really do anybody any good." Seton Hall Assistant AD/Ticket Operations Joseph Rixon said that 97% of season-ticket holders are "from New Jersey," but he has "noticed excitement building among people who didn't attend Seton Hall" (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 11/1).
PIRATES' TREASURE: In New Jersey, Jerry Carino notes Seton Hall is "heading into the highest-profile season" it has seen since it was coming off an national championship game appearance 30 years ago. A school record six games are "scheduled to appear on major national television networks," while Seton Hall G Myles Powell is "plastered on eight billboards throughout northern New Jersey." The student section at Prudential Center traditionally has held 900 people, but it "has been expanded to accommodate 1,200 as student-ticket requests have risen by 31 percent over last season." Overall season-ticket sales are up 53% from '18-19 and 96% "over a five-year span." Average paid attendance "could approach 10,000 this season" after sitting at 8,507 last season and just 7,070 for '15-16 (Bergen RECORD, 11/5).
