You are looking live inside the Barclays Center, where in just a little while the No. 3 seed in the East Region, West Virginia, tries to restore some sanity to a tournament that went a little silly today and faces off against Stephen F. Austin, the No. 14 seed.

There will, of course, be a number of WVU fans here, and you’ve heard and read about the connections some players have to this area. They’re in a pinch for tickets.

The NCAA Tournament’s ticketing system is something else. It’s not great. Personally, I think schools should get more tickets than they do so they can help their fan bases. Realistically, I understand why the NCAA facilitates sponsors and why sites can gobble up as many as they do. But this building seats 18,103. There are eight schools here, and WVU is by far not the one with the biggest fan base, because Notre Dame and Michigan are also here. That pleased the secondary market. You see, the eight schools here are required to take 350 tickets each and every school has an option to get 100 more. When we’re down to four teams Sunday, those four teams again get the same deal, which doesn’t make much sense.

At WVU, about a quarter of its allotment is gone right away. The 16 players — the 13 on scholarship and the three walk-ons — each get four. Some of the players aren’t going to used all four, so they give spare ones to a teammate in need. Tarik Phillip, who left his mom in charge of tickets, scooped up two from Logan Routt and one more here and there from around the locker room. Teyvon Myers strong-armed his way to some others. “You blackmail them, bring up something from their past,” he said. Whatever the method, if it doesn’t work, they’re out of luck, because there won’t be any leftovers waiting for them.

Coaches have contract clauses that guarantee them tickets for friends and family. The team’s managers have to sit behind the bench as opposed to on it because the NCAA, for some reason, only lets you have a specific number of people on the bench in a game. Then there’s WVU’s travel party of administrators and employees.

WVU then looks at what remains and give donors a priority order for purchasing. Consider that the Mountaineers have about 5,800 season ticket-holders. The 330 or so NCAA tickets they have left over won’t last long and make it to the public. So the public has to go online to get theirs, and this site in particular was not cheap.

FIRST FOUR

UD Arena (Dayton, Ohio)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $387.05; Get-in Price $287 (limited quantity). Get-in price refers to the least-expensive available ticket.

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $133.16; Get-in Price $65 (Florida Gulf Coast vs. Fairleigh Dickinson, Vanderbilt vs. Wichita St.)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price $244.30; Get-in Price $175 (Holy Cross vs. Southern, Michigan vs. Tulsa)

FIRST AND SECOND ROUNDS

Dunkin’ Donuts Center (Providence, Rhode Island)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $805.92; Get-in Price $460

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $267.88; Get-in Price $191 (Duke vs UNCW, Baylor vs. Yale)

Session 2: Average Ticket Price $234.93; Get-in Price $146 (Miami vs Buffalo, Arizona vs Vanderbilt/Wichita State

Wells Fargo Arena (Des Moines, Iowa)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $1959.93; Get-in Price $630

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $292.64; Get-in Price $144 (Colorado vs UCONN, Kansas vs Austin Peay)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price $283.64, Get-in Price $144 (Indiana vs Chattanooga, Kentucky vs Stony Brook)

PNC Arena (Raleigh, North Carolina)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $724.71; Get-in Price: $315

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $165.42; Get-in Price: $54 (Texas Tech vs Butler, Virginia vs Hampton)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price $215.91; Get-in Price $76 (North Carolina vs Florida Gulf Coast/Fairleigh Dickinson, USC vs Providence)

Pepsi Center (Denver, Colorado)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $1053.82; Get-in Price $575

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $247.70; Get-in Price $98 (Iowa State vs Iona, Purdue vs Arkansas-Little Rock)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price $261.81; Get-in Price $119 (Utah vs Fresno State, Seton Hall vs Gonzaga)

Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $752.80; Get-in Price: $218

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $192.01; Get-in Price: $57 (Villanova vs UNC Asheville, Iowa vs Temple)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price $217.45; Get-in Price $84 (West Virginia vs Stephen F. Austin, Notre Dame vs Michigan/Tulsa)

Scottrade Center (St. Louis)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $491.81; Get-in Price: $181

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $126.38; Get-in Price: $48 (Dayton vs Syracuse, Michigan State vs Middle Tennessee State)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price: $134.49; Get-in Price $45 (Wisconsin vs Pittsburgh, Xavier vs Weber State)

Chesapeake Energy Arena (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $517.65; Get-in Price $215

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $167.76; Get-in Price $57 (Oregon State vs VCU, Oklahoma vs CSU Bakersfield)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price $139.07; Get-in Price $48 (Texas A&M vs UW-Green Bay, Texas vs Northern Iowa)

Spokane Arena (Spokane, Washington)

All-Sessions Average Ticket Price $560.76; Get-in Price: $295

Session 1 Average Ticket Price $111.87; Get-in Price $37 (California vs Hawaii, Maryland vs South Dakota State)

Session 2 Average Ticket Price $172.11; Get-in Price $80 (Oregon vs Holy Cross/Southern, St. Joe’s vs Cincinnati)

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Now it’s up to the players to make this worth the price of admission. No pressure!