SAN ANTONIO - Saturday night just before tipoff of the UCLA-Memphis game, I snapped this picture from press row, which happens to be courtside (don’t hate me). Look at the poor folks way, way, way up top. There’s no way to accurately tell what they paid for those tickets, but we can make a reasonable guess.

Final Four tickets have a face value between $140 and $220, if you can get them for that price - which, of course, you can’t. Brokers always wind up with a big share of the prized tickets, then wind up selling them in packages to starry-eyed fans willing to pay anything to see their alma mater in the Final Four. The Alamodome seats about 44,000 for basketball, and it’s basically a typical dome setting. It ain’t exactly the ol’ gym back in Hickory where they put 800 in there on Friday nights, if you get my drift.

Now, tickets to some brokers were estimated to be going for 10 times face value or greater and scalpers seemed to be doing a good business as well. So look back up there in the corner again. Those folks are, my goodness, more than 100 yards from the court and they’re waaaay up high. They no doubt wound up watching the game on the giant scoreboard video screen, and some of them likely paid well over a grand to to do so.

Even Bob “Great Seats” Uecker would look at those people and shake his head in amazement.