Two tickets per person and fewer phases are all part of this year’s new basketball ticket policy.
Results from an online survey conducted last month by the Carolina Athletic Association indicated that the two-ticket-per-student general admission policy has student support. It won by 1,140 votes.
Students received an e-mail Thursday from the UNC Athletic Ticket Office, which announced the policy for the 2010-11 men’s basketball season.
Of the 5,561 students who took the survey, 47 percent voted for the winning ticket policy.
The other options included two-tickets-per-student with reserved seating and a one-ticket-per-student policy with a group option. The one-ticket-per-student policy option received the fewest votes — accounting for 11.5 percent of the vote.
While the ticketing policy is usually changed under each CAA president, current president Brandon Finch said he hoped the democratic process of choosing the policy will satisfy students.
“Ultimately it was the decision of the student body,” said CAA ticketing chairman Tucker Idol.
Idol said students likely came to appreciate the success of the two-ticket policy in 2008-09 after witnessing the controversial 2009-10 policy. He said the Smith Center was rarely filled to more than 85 percent capacity under last year’s one-ticket-per-student system.
“First and foremost, we want to fill the seats,” Idol said.