George Mason Patriots Tickets

George Mason Patriots is the name of George Mason University's athletic teams. The school has a total of twenty-two NCAA "Division I" varsity teams, including eleven women's and eleven men's teams. The Patriots were one of the founding members of the Colonial Athletic Association in which they also compete. They began their move from the NAIA and the NCAA "Division II" status into NCAA "Division I" rank with the men's basketball team in 1978-1979. Both the women's and men's basketball teams have been prominent features of the campus life. All the other sports also got promoted to the "Division I" status within just a few years' time. The university attained the present level of twenty varsity teams by adding women's lacrosse, women's rowing, as well as women's and men's swimming and diving teams. Moreover, since the year 1993, the school also has a varsity status club football team which competes at the intercollegiate level.

Many of George Mason's athletic teams have enjoyed historical terms; however men's basketball remains the university's top sport. Since 1985, the basketball squad has played its games at the Patriot Center, and before that they played at the PE Building. The team has reached the NCAA tournament 6 times and the NIT tournament 4 times. The team earned its prime fame for the NCAA run, on the way to the Final Four in 2006. GMU defeated perennial winners UNC Michigan State and Connecticut, as well as the high rated Wichita State side, before facing defeat at the hands of the Final Four's ultimate national champions, Florida. Their basketball rivals include UNC Wilmington, Virginia Commonwealth, Hofstra, James Madison and Old Dominion. The Patriots' most renowned player ever is George Evans, a veteran of  Gulf War, who played from the years 1997-2001, being a CAA athlete of the year for three successive seasons. Evans shares his CAA record with the NBA superstar David Robinson, for having the honor 3 straight times! Other top Patriots include Carlos Yates, Kenny Sanders, Andre Gaddy, Robert Dykes, Tony Skinn, Will Thomas, Robert Rose, and Jai Lewis. Our website is now providing George Mason Patriots tickets for the team's upcoming play!

Furthermore, the men's soccer team, which was one of the 1^st varsity teams to be offered, when the university started its athletics program. The team has since then been 1 of the top ones amongst the twenty-two NCAA "Division I" sports offered currently. In the thirty-nine year history of Patriots soccer, the team has made a record of 377-264-76, with a .579 winning percentage. Besides, the team has attained at least ten wins in twenty-three of its seasons, which includes fourteen consecutive ones from 1980-1993, while also finishing a season being nationally ranked 9 times in the past twenty-four years. Some of the team's renowned former soccer players include Denis Hamlett, Joe Addo, Tamir Linhart, Bob Lilley, Richie Kotschau, Joh O'Hara, Brent Brockman, Anthony Noreiga and others. Now for you to enjoy the team's upcoming game against the South Florida Bulls, we have placed George Mason Patriots tickets on our webpage!