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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
No price increase on tickets at 2013-14 XU home games
NEW ORLEANS -- Xavier University of Louisiana will play its first basketball games this week, and the top price for a ticket to a home game remains $10.
Dannton Jackson, XU's interim athletics director and in his 11th season as coach of the Gold Rush, announced the pricing Tuesday.
The XU men will begin their season at 7 p.m. Friday at home against Carver College of Atlanta. It will be Xavier's second season in the Convocation Center, a $25 million facility which seats nearly 4,000 for basketball.
Adult tickets will cost $10. Xavier will offer free admission to:
• Students with a valid XU ID.
• XU faculty and staff.
• Children age 12 and younger.
• Coaches with a valid LHSAA/LHSCA membership card.
• School teams, which must contact Xavier at least 24 hours before a game. Schools may contact Jackson at (504) 520-5448 to reserve seating at men's games and coach Bo Browder at (504) 520-7333 for seating at women's games.
The Convocation Center will open one hour before all home games.
The XU women will open Saturday on the road -- a neutral-site game at 6 p.m. against Langston in Grand Prairie, Texas -- and play their first home game at 4 p.m. on Nov. 9 against Spring Hill.
Starting times for the Crosstown Classic doubleheader against Dillard on Jan. 25 have been pushed back two hours to 5 p.m. (women) and 7 p.m. (men).
Both XU teams won Gulf Coast Athletic Conference regular-season championships and qualified for NAIA national tournaments in 2012-13. The women finished 24-6, and the men were 24-8.
The 2013-14 home schedule (15 men's games, 11 women's games, plus two non-XU tournament games):
Nov. 1 (Fri.) -- men vs. Carver, 7 p.m.
Nov. 9 (Sat.) -- men vs. Albany State, 2 p.m.; women vs. Spring Hill, 4 p.m.
Nov. 14 (Thu.) -- men vs. Wiley, 7 p.m.
Nov. 19 (Tue.) -- men vs. Loyola, 7 p.m.
Nov. 23 (Sat.) -- women vs. Texas College, noon; men vs. Texas College, 2 p.m.
Dec. 3 (Tue.) -- men vs. William Carey, 7 p.m.
Dec. 5 (Thu.) -- women vs. William Carey, 5:30 p.m.; men vs. Mobile, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 30 (Mon.) -- women vs. Mobile, 7 p.m. (Faulkner vs. LSU-Shreveport, 5 p.m.)
Dec. 31 (Tue.) -- women vs. Faulkner, 5 p.m. (Mobile vs. LSU-Shreveport, 3 p.m.)
Jan. 11 (Sat.) -- women vs. SUNO, 3 p.m.; men vs. SUNO, 5 p.m.
Jan. 13 (Mon.) -- men vs. Spring Hill, 7 p.m.
Jan. 18 (Sat.) -- women vs. Edward Waters, 3 p.m.; men vs. Edward Waters, 5 p.m.
Jan. 20 (Mon.) -- women vs. Talladega, 5:30 p.m.; men vs. Talladega, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 25 (Sat.) -- women vs. Dillard, 5 p.m.; men vs. Dillard, 7 p.m.
Jan. 28 (Tue.) -- men vs. Belhaven, 7 p.m.
Feb. 17 (Mon.) -- women vs. Philander Smith, 5:30 p.m.; men vs. Philander Smith, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 22 (Sat.) -- women vs. Tougaloo, 3 p.m.; men vs. Tougaloo, 5 p.m.
March 6-9 (Thu.-Sun.) -- Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament in New Orleans, including games at XU’s Convocation Center.
By Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
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