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The BYU Cougars have their NIT Second Round marching orders, scheduled to host Mercer Monday night at 7:00 p.m. in the Marriott Center.
The region's 7 seed, Mercer staged a road upset on Wednesday night, comfortably dispatching 2 seed Tennessee by a score of 75-67. The regular-season champs from the Atlantic Sun conference recorded their second road win over an SEC team, having earlier won at Alabama. Mercer also has an away victory at Florida State on its 2012-13 portfolio.
The Bears' schedule also includes three road losses to teams ranked 270th or worse in RPI, and two setbacks at altitude, having dropped games at New Mexico (76-58) and Denver (69-40). Mercer is among the slowest-tempo and lowest-scoring teams in the country, and has scored fewer than 50 points in a game six times during the season, with a low of 36 points in a neutral-court loss to Illinois-Chicago.
The Bears are returning to the Beehive State for a second consecutive postseason, having defeated Utah State last March in Logan to win the 2012 CIT title.
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Ticket info for the BYU-Mercer game is as follows:
Legacy 1-5 reserved seat tickets
Tickets are on sale now by logging into your BYUtickets.com account. Legacy 1-5 may login and select the seats you wish to sit in. This Legacy priority ordering period will go until Thursday afternoon at 2:00 pm MDT. Tickets are $10.
Reserved Seat Tickets
All other fans may buy $10 reserved tickets beginning at 2:00 pm MDT on Thursday afternoon at BYUtickets.com or by calling the Marriott Center Ticket Office at 801.422.BYU1 (2981). Marriott Center Ticket Office hours are from 9 am - 5 pm MDT.
Courtside Cougars
Courtside Cougars wishing to purchase tickets may call the Marriott Center Ticket Office on Thursday morning beginning at 9:00 am MDT at 801.422.2981 to buy their seat for $50 per ticket. Courtside Cougars will have until Thursday 5:00 pm MDT to purchase their reserved tickets.
Student Section General Admission Tickets
Students will receive free admission with the Student All-Sport Pass or $4 without an All-Sport pass. Details of when the doors will open on Monday will be released later.
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Monday night's game can be heard on KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM/1160 AM and BYU Radio (SiriusXM 143); pregame coverage begins at 6:00 p.m., with the tipoff at 7:00. The game will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2.
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Photo: Courtesy Jaren Wilkey, BYU Photo
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