Big Blue Madness tickets sold out in less than 40 minutes. Get ready for Oct. 12.

Big Blue Madness tickets sold out in less than 40 minutes of availability Friday night, University of Kentucky Athletic officials said in a release.

Big Blue Madness, featuring introductions of both men’s and women’s basketball teams, practice drills, and videos, is at 7 p.m. Friday Oct. 12 in Rupp Arena. It will be televised on the SEC Network.

More than 1,000 fans were at the Memorial Coliseum/Joe Craft Center grounds for the Big Blue Madness campout for three days this week. Some people got their tickets online. They picked up tickets Friday night at UK’s Memorial Coliseum ticket office and claimed them online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets were available to the public starting at 10 p.m.

UK Athletics is encouraging fans not to buy nor sell their Big Blue Madness tickets and not to post pictures of their tickets, specifically the barcode, on the internet.

Everyone will be required to have a ticket to Big Blue Madness, no matter how old they are.