Raleigh, N.C. — It's a free-for-all at Davidson College.

Thanks to the deep pockets of the school's Board of Trustees, nearly 300 students will travel to Detroit to watch their beloved men's basketball team continue its surprising run in the NCAA Tournament tonight. Students are getting bus transportation, two nights lodging and a ticket to see Davidson play Wisconsin in the Midwest Regional - all for free. Trustees pledged Wednesday to pay for any student. Within a day, 275 students - nearly 20 percent of the student body - had signed up. That sent officials at the small liberal-arts college, located about 650 miles south of Detroit, scrambling.

"The response was tremendous and frankly, surprisingly large," school spokeswoman Stacey Schmeidel said Thursday.