The Southern Highland Reader

CULLOWHEE–It’s probably been a quarter-century since basketball tickets were as hot in Cullowhee as they’re going to be this year, and folks at the Ramsey Center are making sure everybody who wants them gets them.

The Western Carolina athletics department has announced broad discounts on season ticket packages, including a $125 family pack (2 adults, 2 kids) that’ll get your entire brood into any men’s or women’s game all season long.

A single adult season ticket for all games is $75.

Western’s men’s team is as deep and talented as it has been in the Ramsey Center era, and has been picked to win the Southern Conference’s north division and compete for a league championship. Western shared the north division crown with Chattanooga last year.

The Catamount women went 21-12 and won their second league tourney crown in five years last year. They went on to a 13th seed appearance in the NCAA tournament, where they fell to Vanderbilt.

Western lost three starters who combined for some 29 points and 15 rebounds a game to graduation, and coach Kellie Harper moved on to become head coach at NC State. But Western landed a strong recruiting class and a quality coach in Karen Middleton, formerly an assistant at Illinois.

After opening with St. Catherine’s (KY) in mid November, the WCU men travel to Texas and then host Arkansas-Monticello, Binghamton and Duquesne as part of the O’Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic.

Read more about the programs, and about the season ticket offer here.

Tags: athletics, Basketball, college basketball, Cullowhee, NCAA, ncaa tournament, Southern Conference, Western Carolina University

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