University of Minnesota Athletics
Best Buy Classic Tickets Available for Free
11/4/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Gopher Sports Marketing and Best Buy have teamed up to offer free ticket vouchers to games at the Best Buy Classic, Nov. 13-14. The vouchers can be picked up at any of the 19 Metro-area Best Buy locations between Nov. 8-14, and each voucher is good for one bench seat at Williams Arena on either day of the tournament. Visit the Best Buy Customer Service desk to get yours. Supplies are limited and distributed on a first come, first served basis.
In addition, various Gopher student-athletes will volunteer and stand at multiple Williams Arena entrances before and during the Best Buy Classic games, asking for charitable contributions of food or monetary donations. This is the 11th year the University of Minnesota has held a food drive at various Gopher athletic events.
The food collected during all the drives will go to Second Harvest Heartland, the upper Midwest's largest hunger-relief organization, serving 59 counties in Minnesota and western Wisconsin (4). Also, when money is contributed, the organization has the ability to distribute $9 of groceries for every dollar donated, according to Second Harvest Heartland's website.
Those who make a donation to the food drive will receive a raffle ticket, and drawings will be held throughout the weekend, with the chance to win apparel items or the Grand Prize of a free Thanksgiving turkey. One turkey will be given away each day.
Minnesota opens its regular season on Saturday, Nov. 13, at 1:00 p.m., when it plays host to Northern Illinois in the first game of the Best Buy Classic. The second game that day features Green Bay and George Washington at 3:30 p.m. The consolation game will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14, followed by the Best Buy Classic championship game at 3:30 p.m.
The Gophers played the first of two exhibitions last night (Nov. 3), defeating Southwest Minnesota State, 75-48. Minnesota plays its second exhibition versus UM Crookston on Sunday, Nov. 7, at 2:00 p.m.
