Pick your seat night

[BCPanther]

Anyone worse than this as far as number?? #114 of 121 on the last night!! Oh well, I don't think there will be a bad seat in the building.

[VeloPanther]

Anyone worse than this as far as number?? #114 of 121 on the last night!! Oh well, I don't think there will be a bad seat in the building.

118 right here! Looking like I'll be in the Uecker seats!

[JayJ79]

Does anyone know if there will be reserved seating for volleyball, WBB, wrestling, etc. or will it remain general admission like it is now in the West Gym?

[Panther AC]

If you buy season tickets for women's bb, wrestling or volleyball, there will be a reserved seating area, such as the first 10 rows around the arena, for season ticket holders.

[JayJ79]

cool. thanks for the info.

[UNI Fight]

Took a tour of the McCleod center yesterday and it looks awesome with all the purple seats in and the wood bleachers at the end for students. It'll be a great place for basketball. The locker rooms are looking great but still seemed like there was a lot of work left to do but still looked great.

[BCPanther]

How did the first night go for those of you lucky enough to pick on the first night??

[PantherChic]

Wow! To be in there, FINALLY, choosing our seats.....how cool is that! A long time coming, that's for sure, and so worth it. Major kudos to the Scholarship Club staff and ticket staff, plus volunteers....it went so smoothly for us. Love, love, love our seats - though cannot imagine a bad seat in the place. They have lots to do in 3 short weeks, but I have no doubt that place will just shine on the 18th! You can just see how proud everyone is of the arena. The atmosphere will be electric for each and every game. Now if we can find some football success to help us pass the time until the weekend of the 18th!

[GoCats05]

I would have to agree was very exciting to be in that new arena. We got seats about 5 rows behind the UNI players bench. Still a lot of great seats available, but centercourt seats are pretty much taken. I still am not totally in agreement with Iowa St. game being played in the Dome, but with the arena just opening and guys not able to practice a lot in there, we wouldn't have much of a homecourt advantage the first few games anyway. With 3200 season tickets sold, over half the arena is already sold and the south end entirely student and band section, that place will be rockin'!!!

[Deke3]

WOW! I was amazed at how many seats were taken on the first night. I am very happy with the seats we got. We are across from the UNI bench (top of the arc) 11 rows up. I was a little frustrated with the process for picking ISU tickets. They said that the teams would be on the east side this year and that UNI would be on the NE end of the court. I questioned this set up (as it is different from the last 10+ years). This was not what they told the ticket holders on Monday night (they thought it would be the same usual set up). I expect there to be some people upset about the miscommunication.

Overall I think Steve and the crew did a wonderful job setting up the seat selection for the MC.

-Deke

['70 Grad]

[I]Just[I]got back from Cedar Falls. The arena is very nice. Wanted seats down low, so I settled for some at about free throw line distance right behind the Panthers, row 4. How bad is that?!

Could have gotten seats a little closer to the center, but they would have been in the side section close to the band.

There was trouble with the ticket printing company & delivery, so the tickets were not there to take home with you. Wasn't expecting that anyway.

The restrooms were blocked off, so I did not take a "tour" of them. Did wander in to the hall of fame connector. It is just a shell - as others have said, it won't be done for months. Still temporary railings around the holes in the floor where the steps will go, etc. Looked through the new window in to the dome - neat.

Someone mentioned that the construction crew worked an 80 hour week last week (to get ready for select your seat night?). The seats are all in, of course, as is the plastic panels/railing behind the seats. Railings in the aisles were temporary. No wood floor back yet (as was known). No scoreboards. Work being done in consession area. They dimmed the lights once - cool.

In order to get in the arena, we took a golf cart shuttle from the reserved parking area. Then in thru one of the few partly-working doors on the south end - a change from the instructions of a few weeks ago in the letter which said to use a north door near the Eldon Miller Plaza.

The actual seat-choosing procedure went very smoothly - lots of great volunteers.

If you told me that the McLeod Center was to open in 6 weeks, I would say "Looks doable, with some work." 18 days? WOW!

[Chitown Panther]

Just got my 2 seats today......luckily enough they are right next to my parents 2 seats. So 4 in a row!!!!!

Pretty Sweet!!!

Too bad I now live in Denver, CO.....