UK Men's Basketball

How to get single-game tickets for Kentucky basketball vs. Purdue, other opponents

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  • Nine single-game home tickets, including Purdue exhibition, go on sale at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
  • Dec. 2 North Carolina tickets are sold out; ticket supply for other games remains very limited.
  • UK opens Ticketmaster sale at 5 p.m. for 2025-26 single-game tickets.

Single-game tickets for the Kentucky men’s basketball team’s first nine home games — including an exhibition against top-ranked Purdue — will go on sale Tuesday.

The sale, the first of two to buy 2025-26 regular-season, single-game tickets, will begin at 5 p.m. Tickets will be available exclusively through Ticketmaster, via its website or app.

Tickets for the Wildcats’ Dec. 2 game against North Carolina are sold out and will not be part of Tuesday’s sale, and tickets for other games are “very limited,” according to a UK news release. The Purdue game in particular is a hot ticket. The Boilermakers, ranked No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 released Monday, will visit Rupp Arena on Oct. 24.

In addition to Purdue, there were tickets remaining as of Monday for UK’s other exhibition game, against Georgetown on Oct. 30, and regular-season games against Nicholls (Nov. 4), Valparaiso (Nov. 7), Eastern Illinois (Nov. 14), Loyola (Maryland) (Nov. 21), Tennessee Tech (Nov. 26) and North Carolina Central (Dec. 9).

Tickets for the Wildcats’ final 11 home games — begining with a Dec. 13 date with Indiana — will go on sale at a later date, pending availability.

Kentucky Wildcats guard Jasper Johnson (2) drives the ball during Big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena last Saturday. Single-game tickets for some UK home games go on sale Tuesday.
Kentucky Wildcats guard Jasper Johnson (2) drives the ball during Big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena last Saturday. Single-game tickets for some UK home games go on sale Tuesday. Ryan C. Hermens rhermens@herald-leader.com
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