There won’t be a Big Blue Madness campout again this year. Here’s how to get tickets.

A new era of Kentucky basketball won’t tip off with the return of an old tradition.

UK announced Monday morning that tickets for this year’s Big Blue Madness — the first for new men’s head coach Mark Pope and women’s head coach Kenny Brooks — will be available to fans starting at 5 p.m. Friday. There will be no in-person ticket distribution of any kind.

Tickets will once again be free, though online orders will have a “minimal service fee” and there will be a limit of four tickets per household.

The ticket distribution plan for Madness, which will be held at 7 p.m. ET on Oct. 11 at Rupp Arena, does not include a campout, which had been a campus staple tied to the first major UK basketball event of the season, but one that went away in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has not returned.

Ongoing construction around Memorial Coliseum — the traditional home of the campout — will prevent such an event from being held on that site. There was also no Madness campout last year due to the renovations there. The 2020 edition of Madness was held without fans — but shown live on SEC Network — and tickets to the 2021 version were distributed online due to COVID-19 precautions.

There was a scaled-back, one-night campout in 2022 with a limited number of spots around Memorial Coliseum — an area that was overrun by tents in years past as campers slept outside for days waiting to get their tickets to Big Blue Madness.

Seats for this year’s Madness will still be available online through Ticketmaster.com starting at 5 p.m. ET Friday. That’ll be the only way to obtain seats for the Oct. 11 event, which typically “sells out” in a matter of minutes and is likely to be even more popular this year amid major change for both of the school’s basketball programs.

Pope and Brooks, who took over for John Calipari and Kyra Elzy, respectively, this offseason, will have almost entirely new teams in their first seasons in charge of the Wildcats.

Both teams are expected to make the NCAA Tournament this season, with Pope’s squad at No. 23 in the ESPN preseason rankings and Brooks’ Cats at No. 25 on the latest ESPN list. Calipari won just one NCAA Tournament game in his final five years as UK’s coach, and Elzy had only one victory in the NCAA Tournament in her four years in charge of the Wildcats.

The Kentucky men’s and women’s teams will also appear together at the “Blue/White Preseason Event” — the replacement for the annual Blue-White Game — on Oct. 18 in the renovated Memorial Coliseum, and the earnings from that event will go directly to the UK Athletics-affiliated Club Blue, which operates name, image and likeness compensation for Wildcats players. Ticket packages for that event went on sale last week.

Both teams will begin their regular seasons at home on Nov. 4, with the men’s team hosting Wright State in Rupp Arena and the women’s team playing USC Upstate in Memorial Coliseum.

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