Tickets to the University of Montana Grizzlies football game Friday night are going fast, and Chuck Maes wants to see the Adams Center Box Office sell them out.
"We're hoping. We've never sold out on a playoff game," said Maes, UM associate athletic director for internal operations and events. "We came very close in the App State game two years ago."
As of Monday afternoon, some 12,000 folks had tickets to watch the Griz face the Northern Iowa Panthers on Friday in the FCS quarterfinals. Maes said he anticipates selling 24,000-plus tickets for the stadium, which seats 25,200.
Here's an update on how to get tickets, Campus Drive closures, parking, tailgate rules, and where to tune in on television if you're watching from home.
Kickoff is at 6:05 p.m., and ESPN will televise the battle between the fifth-ranked Grizzlies and second-ranked Panthers.
You can get tickets a couple of different ways. The Adams Center Box Office will sell them from 8:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, and on Wednesday and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. through halftime during the Grizzly basketball games. Halftime falls about 8 p.m.
Tickets are $26 each, plus $5 per order for purchases made by phone or fax. Ticket prices for students are $5 and $10 for a student guest - until 6 p.m. Tuesday. After that deadline, students pay $26.
Students and season-ticket holders who preordered playoff tickets have until 6 p.m. Tuesday to make their purchases. After 6 p.m., tickets once reserved for season-ticket holders will go on sale at www.griztix.com, likely by midnight Tuesday, Maes said.
As of Monday afternoon, some 1,500 student tickets remained. Maes said it's hard to estimate the number of regular tickets that will be left before 6 p.m. Tuesday, but the number appeared to be dwindling fast at the box office.
"It's crazy over there. We're flying," Maes said.
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Friday promises to be crazy on campus as well, but classes won't be canceled, and parking will be a hassle, according to a memo UM President Royce Engstrom sent to the campus community.
"Private pregame tailgating will begin at noon, and I hope everyone will be especially welcoming to the fans from across Montana and Iowa," wrote Engstrom in the note. "GO GRIZ!"
On Monday, the University of Montana also issued a news release with information about Grizzly game day. Here are details:
- Campus Drive will have restricted lanes on Wednesday and Thursday for game setup.
- Campus Drive will be closed starting at 6 a.m. Friday.
- Many of the campus parking lots around the stadium will be used for fan parking starting at noon Friday.
- UM employees not attending the game will need to move their vehicles by 3 p.m. from lots M1, N, P, R, T, U, V, W and Z, or find alternative transportation to campus Friday.
- Game-day setup around the Adams Center and Washington-Grizzly Stadium will begin at 6 a.m. on Friday.
- Fans going to the Adams Center Box Office for tickets can park in the eastern half of lot P until 3 p.m. Friday. After 3 p.m., parking is for permit holders only.
Tailgating will begin at 4 p.m. Friday, and tailgate permit holders may begin setup at noon.
- Parking lots will be available to ticket holders after 3 p.m.
- RVs with permits on Campus Drive and South Fifth Street East can begin parking 8 a.m. Friday.
- RVs with permits on South Sixth Street East and Van Buren Street can park at 1 p.m. Friday.
- All RVs must be in their reserved spaces by 3 p.m.
- Because school is in session, Grizzly Athletics will not be manning lots typically held for single game sales (Specifically lots A, B, C, E, F, L, Y and Campus Drive from Schreiber Gym to the Prescott House.) These lots are all normally accessed via the Beckwith campus entrance on game day.
- Game day shuttle service from the Dornblaser Park-n-Ride and East Broadway Park-n-Ride and the Downtown Shuttle will run from 3 p.m. until one hour after the game. All shuttles will be free.
- The Bar Bus Program will be operating; check with specific establishments for details.
- Campus Recreation and the Grizzly Pool will close at 5 p.m. on Friday.
- Stadium gates open at 4:30 p.m.
ESPN will have the game on the following channels for folks who aren't attending the game in person:
- Bresnan 35; 735 HD (Missoula area/Milltown).
- Optimum 35; 535 HD.
- Dish Network 140.
- DirecTV 206; HD also is 206.
- Bresnan 22 in Hamilton; Bresnan 32 in Kalispell.
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