Update #2: as of 7:30 PM Eastern Time, tickets are once again available at the price of $70 for an all-session pass.
Update: after women’s NCAA Championship tickets were sold out before they were even available to the general public, men’s tickets were gone within a few minutes of being open to the public. That’s a significant milestone, as the IU Natatorium is the largest permanent pool in terms of seating in the United States.
Tickets for the 2020 men’s NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships will go on sale on Friday, January 31st, at Noon Eastern time. Tickets for the women’s meet have already sold out for University of Georgia’s Gabrielsen Natatorium, which holds 2,000 spectators.
Tickets to the Division III Championships, which will be held from March 19th-21st in Greensboro, North Carolina, are already on sale, at $65 for an all-session pass.
Last year, tickets for the men’s Division I Championship meet in Austin, Texas were sold out before they were available to the general public, with the team pre-sales snapping up all available tickets. The Texas Swim Center seats 2,600 and played host to a team contending for the title, the University of Texas; this year’s host, the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, seats 4,700 along the full length of the 50 meter pool, and the home team IUPUI is not likely to send any swimmers to the meet (though near by Indiana University will).
This year, however, the women’s meet has sold out in presale.
Prior to the opening of tickets to the public, teams are allowed to request tickets. Up to 40 per team are treated as priority. Typically, teams sell these tickets to parents of athletes who qualify, but the team tickets can also go to alumni or friends of the program. Requesting or buying tickets early is a gamble, as NCAA invites aren’t finalized until early March, and invites for most athletes are still very much in flux as of January.
Only all-session passes for the men’s meet go on sale this Friday, with individual session tickets, if they are still available, up for grabs on Wednesday, February 26th at 12 PM.
NCAA 2020 Swimming & Diving Championship Schedules
- 2020 Women’s NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships – March 18th-21st, 2020 – Athens, Georgia
- 2020 Men’s NCAA Divsion I Swimming & Diving Championships – March 25th-28th, 2020 – Indianapolis, Indiana
- 2020 Men’s & Women’s NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships – March 11th-14th, 2020 – Geneva, Ohio
- 2020 Men’s & Women’s NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships – March 18th-21st, 2020 – Greensboro, North Carolina
They should have it in Omaha- same venue as trials
They need to make NCAA swimming and diving championships 50 meters instead of 25 yards These athletes are getting too big and too strong to swim 25 yards. Some of these swimmers standing broad jump 7′ to 10′ and have strong underwater dolphin kicks. It might hurt some of the athletes from smaller schools because they don’t have a 50-meter pool to practice in, but they will be ok.
I was on their site right at noon and they were already sold out. I don’t think they ever put all session passes for sale today!
Sorry, but I don’t understand this. On Meet day the stands will be less than 3/4 full if you count all the seats, both sides, 50m long. I’ve been plenty of times and always have tons of empty seats.
Time to move NCAA swimming to an arena!
Maybe. If they can sell out Indy, then it might be time to explore that – but not a huge arena like in Omaha, maybe one of these smaller 8-10,000 seaters.
The problem is that, unless it’s the Olympic Trials and you’re selling tons of tickets for a very high cost, the economics don’t work. Yes, the traditional pools do seem to be getting too small. But selling an extra 6,000 all-session passes for $150 each only brings in an extra $1.8 million in revenue…and I have to imagine that holding up an arena for that long and installing a temporary pool costs more than that.
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Maybe someone should pitch that to Chris Del Conte and his minister of culture. Texas is about to build a new multi-use basketball arena that I think is targeted to hold 8-10k.
Good idea!
Also…I was curious, so I looked it up, and was shocked to see that Texas only averaged 8,600 and change for basketball games last season. I guess they’re not that good, but when they are, it’s surprising that they’d only build a 10,000 seat arena (expandable to 15,000 for concerts and etc.)
Maybe they’re seeing the downward trend of college football attendance and expecting the same to happen in basketball.
Does anyone happen to know the largest indoor venue (or venues) in the United States that includes a permanent pool?
Time to summon the power of the ISL
I’m on Tickemaster right now and it’s saying the Men’s meet is sold out, too. How does that happen in 20 minutes?
Same here. It looks like individual day tickets go on sale in February?
Ridiculous. There is no way this is sold out. The NCAA or ticketmaster need to get their act together. Until just the other day, they still sent people to the University of Texas web site for this years’s ticket info. In addition to saying it’s Sold Out, they tell you to check back soon. For what, if they’re all sold out?
UPDATE: got back from work and got tickets around 5:30 PM. Not sure why they said sold out.
I logged on to ticketmaster a few minutes before 12 and still missed out
It says they are sold out for men too. That is surprising for IUPUI
Men’s tickets sold out in 3 minutes. I question the fairness of these sales to the general public.
There are very few tickets available for the general public, because of the way the NCAA allocated tickets to teams with qualifying athletes. The process is not “2 tix for every qualifier you have”, but more like, “40 tix if you have a qualifier”. So, Texas and Cal scramble to get extra tix for family members and alumni, and other schools with one or a few qualifiers have tix to resell or return.