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By the time Calvin Harris decided he wanted to see South Alabama play Butler in the NCAA tournament, there were just over a thousand tickets left at the BJCC, all of them in the upper level. Harris says, "I would have liked to be down lower, but you get, what you can get, I guess." With 16,000 seats, the BJCC is the smallest tournament venue. At $51 a piece, it's individual session tickets are also the cheapest. They went on sale Thursday morning, because the ticket books for all three sessions failed to sell out. Tennessee fan Troy David thinks he got a pretty good deal by waiting. He says, $100, "for two tickets was great, in lieu of having to spend the $300 to see all the different sessions I'm not interested in." The fact that Birmingham was one of only two host cities to not sell out of books may have come as a concern to NCAA officials, but would a bigger BJCC make a difference to the city's long-term tournament ambitions? Davis thinks so. He says, "
I live in Alabaster, so I'm well aware of the situation to build a domed stadium, which I think would be a great opportunity for Birmingham. The city needs it, and if they had it, obviously besides getting this, they could maybe get a Final Four one day."
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