National champion Kentucky announces it's nonconference schedule

[Da Coach]

Kentucky announces it's nonconference schedule, and home fans are upset at how weak the home schedule is. The play only 2 true road games at Notre Dame as their part of the SEC-Big East Challenge and at Louisville for their annual rivalry game. There are 2 neutral site games against Maryland in Brooklyn, and against Duke in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
They play 2 home exhibition games against NAIA Northwood and Transylvania, which is in the process of transitioning from NAIA to Division 3.
Their other 9 non-conference games are at home, and include a variety of creampuffs.

http://johnclay.bloginky.com/2012/07/10/fears-confirmed-rupp-arena-schedule-beyond-weak/

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/07/10/2254085/kentucky-sets-non-conference-basketball.html

Here is the home schedule with the 9 non-conference opponents-

[lefty]

Well...they are in a rebuilding year after losing so many players....to the draft........

[tornado]

Season ticket holders are routinely given 20 home dates - the two exhibitions plus 18 other regular season home games.

The cheapest tickets in their 24,400 capacity arena are $40 lower bowl & $35 upper.
BUT the most expensive ones end up costing over $5000 per seat - that's because all lower bowl courtside seats come with a "K-Fund" mandatory donation (maintainence) of $5000 each (these are the Ashley Judd-seats)
and all the rest of the endline-to-endline lower bowl seats are $1500 per seat.

http://www.kentucky.com/2010/08/04/1374898/uk-basketball-tickets-and-k-fund.html

The maintainence fees alone generate over $10 million per year and then ticket sales for the 20 home games generates another $3-4 million...