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Fans cheer on the West Virginia University men’s basketball team on Nov. 4, 2025, at Hope Coliseum.
Fans cheer on the West Virginia University men’s basketball team on Nov. 4, 2025, at Hope Coliseum.
Seniors saw the lowest percentage of fulfilled ticket requests in the lottery for this year’s WVU Men’s Basketball matchup against the University of Pittsburgh, with 12.5% of requests fulfilled.
This reporting uses data obtained from Michael Honeywell, associate athletics director for ticket operations, showing the number of tickets requested and issued per grade for this year’s Backyard Brawl.
A total of 2,961 student tickets were distributed for the game. Normally, a maximum of 2,300 tickets are distributed, but 661 tickets were added “given student demand and availability in adjacent sections,” according to Honeywell.
In total, 5,857 students requested tickets for the Brawl. Of those students, 2,088 were freshmen, 1,300 were sophomores, 1,062 were juniors, 1,124 were seniors and 283 were graduate students.
Sophomores saw the highest percentage of requests fulfilled, with 69.1% of ticketing requests fulfilled, accounting for 898 students.
Freshmen saw the highest number of requests fulfilled at 1,354 tickets, representing 64.8% of the tickets requested.
WVU Men’s Basketball’s ticketing policy is a loyalty-based lottery based on a student seniority. Students begin the season with a designated amount of loyalty points and have the ability to earn or lose points, depending on their attendance at games. A student’s loyalty points dictate how many entries they receive in the ticketing lottery.
If a student has zero loyalty points, they receive one entry in the lottery. If they have 10, they receive 11 entries into the lottery.
Graduate students and seniors begin each season with five points, juniors with three, sophomores with two and freshmen with one.
Twenty percent of loyalty points from the previous season carry over, thus increasing the likelihood of older students receiving tickets, according to section 3.5 of the basketball ticketing policy.
Loyalty points are earned based on “attendance at home basketball games, which is tracked via handheld scanners at the student entrance at the Hope Coliseum,” according to WVU’s Student Tickets website.
If a student requests and is granted a ticket, but does not attend or return the ticket before tipoff, they lose two loyalty points.
Of the students who received tickets, the average loyalty point total was 2.4, while the average of those who did not receive tickets was 2.5.
“Again, when a lottery is implemented, loyalty points pertain to probability and are not a guarantee that a student will receive a ticket,” Honeywell said in an email to The Daily Athenaeum.
To request tickets, students can visit WVUGAME.com/students.
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