March Madness tickets: How to get NCAA tournament 2nd-round seats for Alabama-Maryland

March Madness tickets: How to get NCAA tournament 2nd-round seats for Alabama-Maryland

The top-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide advanced Thursday to the second round of the NCAA tournament in Birmingham after defeating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 96-75. Tickets for the second round against No. 8 seed Maryland are available at Vivid Seats, StubHub and Seat Geek.

The Terrapins defeated the South regions’ No. 9 seed, West Virginia, earlier Thursday in Birmingham to advance to Saturday’s second-round game. The time of the game is expected to be released late Thursday night.

Alabama’s Nick Pringle, a junior college transfer who came in averaging 3 points per game, scored 17 and had a season-high 13 rebounds. Mark Sears made three 3s in a 58-second span of the first half and scored 15 points. Jahvon Quinerly scored 13 and Nimari Burnett had 11 in the first-round contest. Brandon Miller didn’t score.

Check out where to get tickets:

The cheapest seats at Vivid Seats are $244 and go for as much as $1,198.

StubHub’s cheapest seats are $252. The best-selling tickets, however, are going for $266 each.

Seat Geek best prices are $231 per ticket. Some of the best seats available, in section 125, are going for $394 each.

Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.