Tickets still available for Philly

A small number of general admission tickets are available for the three sessions in Philadelphia on Thursday and Saturday.

Villanova plays American in the #3 vs. #14 game in Philadelphia on Thursday night. Game time is yet to be determined, but it's likely Villanova will play in the early session to accommodate West Coast viewers watching UCLA in the other game.

The tickets come with seats, but the seats are not yet specified.

The tickets for the three sessions (six games) are being sold by Ticketmaster for their $220 face value plus fees.

New tickets available for sold-out G'town Sat.

Villanova's ticket masters have just sent out a red-alert e-mail bulletin advising Nova Nation that a small number of tickets are now available for the sold-out Georgetown game this Saturday at the Wachovia Center.

From the decrypted communique:

Due to Villanova's Spring Break starting this Friday, the student ticket pick-up for this Saturday's Villanova vs. Georgetown game has been lower than normal. Therefore, a limited number of lower level tickets have just been released for public sale. All tickets are in the lower level and are priced at $35. Tip-off for this game is set for 12:00 PM at the Wachovia Center.

You can buy the tickets from Comcast's online ticket office here. The sale is online only, and likely won't last long.

Six Wachovia tickets now on sale

Villanova fans can now purchase tickets to six home games at the Wachovia Center this season.

Tickets for the game against LSU in Big East/SEC Invitational on Dec. 6 are available from Comcast Tix.

Prices range from $25-$60, depending on seating, and Comcast Tix is still charging a ridiculous set of fees for even the $25 purchase: A minimum of $12.90 for the cheapest seats, including $6.90 in unspecified "fee(s)," an equally preposterous $3.50 "order charge" on top of that, and most ludicrous of all, a $2.50 charge for you to print the tickets out on your own printer. Unfortunately, this seems to be the only ticket option for this game.

The extremely popular "Wach-Pack" of five game tickets is also back for 2007-2008. Fans can purchase seats at the following games for as low as $100 for the pack:

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 @ 7:00pm vs BLOOMSBURG
Saturday, January 26, 2008 @ 12:00PM vs NOTRE DAME
Saturday, February 2, 2008 @ 12:00PM vs SYRACUSE
Saturday, February 23, 2008 @ 12:00PM vs CONNECTICUT
Monday, February 25, 2008 @ 7:00PM vs MARQUETTE

The Bloomsburg game is an exhibition, and tips off less than three weeks from today.

Fans can buy the tickets by visiting the Comcast Tix pre-sales page and entering in the pre-sale code: wildcats.

Alternately, the Wach-Pack is available from the regular Comcast Tix site, starting October 19. Either way, the Comcast Tix fees total $26.00 for the cheapest option, or more than the price of any individual game in the package.

Despite the outrageous fees, the Wachovia games are the best chance for a Wildcats fan sans Pavilion season-tickets to see the team play this year.

With the 'Cats expected to contend for the NCAA Tournament with an exciting corps of young guards, the tickets may be a bargain after all.