Xavier senior Sean O'Mara can usually find a couple of extra tickets for his family and friends from teammates, some of which are from far away as Georgia, New Jersey and even Turkey.
Not this weekend.
With No. 4 Xavier (24-3, 12-2 Big East) fighting for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament and potentially its first Big East regular-season championship, extra tickets for Saturday’s game against No. 3 Villanova (23-3, 10-3 Big East) at Cintas Center in Cincinnati are impossible to find.
“I know tickets are very hard to find,” said O’Mara, who will have six family members in attendance, four of whom are using his four tickets.