Look at the available seats - there is not a single sear available in each of the four corners. That means those tickets are not available to the public to be purchased.
Not sure if the are going to put tarps back up, but in the past the ticket office has reduced the amount of publicly available tickets in order to prevent vcu fans from taking over the arena.
Only real point Im making is that the limited number of tickets available does not mean all the other tickets have been sold. Last I heard we still don’t expect to reach 7k with students still on break.