With Fifth Third Arena set to reopen in November after $87 million in renovations, the University of Cincinnati men's basketball program is selling season tickets at a rate unseen since the Kenyon Martin era.
More than 500 season tickets were sold on the first day of sales this week, bringing the number of total season tickets purchased to nearly 7,500. That makes the arena's record of 7,707 season tickets, set before the 1999-2000 season, well within reach.
Martin was the consensus national Player of the Year in the 1999-2000 season, when the Bearcats sold out every home game with a capacity of 13,176 seats.