PEORIA, Ill. -- A Red-Out has been declared for the championship game of the inaugural CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. All fans are encouraged to wear red Tuesday night as Bradley (21-14) shoots for its fifth postseason tournament title when the Braves host Colonial Athletic Association member Old Dominion (24-10) in the 7:05 p.m. championship game at Carver Arena.
Ticket prices for Tuesday's CIT championship game range from $9-30, based on location, and fans may receive two tickets for the price of one in the $9 Priority IV seating sections. Bradley University students also may receive tickets at no cost, courtesy of the Braves Club, by presenting a valid ID at the time of pickup.
Season-ticket holders have until 6 p.m. today to claim their regular-season seats at the Carver Arena Box Office. The general public may begin purchasing all open seats beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday morning in person at the Carver Arena Box Office, any other TicketMaster outlet or online through Bradley's official athletic department website, www.BradleyBraves.com. The Shea Stadium Box Office will be open to the general public from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The Braves have reached the championship game of a national postseason tournament for the 11th time in program history, but Tuesday's CIT final will be the second contested on Bradley's home court and the first at Carver Arena. Bradley claimed four National Invitation Tournament titles at New York City's Madison Square Garden in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1982. The Braves have dropped six other postseason tournament championship games: two NCAA Tournaments, two NIT's, the 1951 National Campus Tournament at Robertson Memorial Field House and the 2008 College Basketball Invitational. The Braves also downed Tulsa at home in the second game of last year's CBI best-of-three championship series to keep that series alive.
The only other time Bradley has faced Old Dominion was in the second round of the 1994 National Invitation Tournament, a 79-75 Bradley win that was played in front of 9,940 fans -- the largest postseason home crowd in Bradley history. Bradley has drawn the three largest crowds of the inaugural CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, growing from 4,472 in the opener versus Austin Peay; to 5,007 for the dramatic quarterfinal win against Oakland; to 6,114 for the semifinal victory Wednesday night against Pacific.
