KU going to big dance

By Mike Belt     Mar 12, 2001

Want tickets for Friday’s KansasCal State Northridge game in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament in Dayton, Ohio?

Forget it.

Unless you can find some scalped tickets at a price you can afford (scalping is not illegal in Kansas), you’re probably out of luck.

Kansas University’s allotment for the first two rounds of the tournament is 350 tickets through the NCAA, said Pat Warren, KU associate athletics director-external relations.

More than 300 of the tickets are already taken from earlier requests through the Williams Educational Fund, he said. The remainder will go to families of team members and to staff who travel with the team. The tickets are only good for KU’s games, he said, adding, “If we get any more we’ll let people know.”

If you travel to University of Dayton Arena hoping to buy tickets at the door, you’re also out of luck. The games are sold out, Warren said.

The arena seats 13,455.

The KU Alumni Association is not sponsoring any organized travel to Dayton, said Kirk Cerny, senior vice president for membership. Any other alumni-sponsored activities in Dayton are pending, he said.

“We might have something at the hotel where the team is staying but we’ll have to check with the hotel first,” he said.

The No. 4-seed KU team will be staying at the Holiday Inn at the Dayton Mall, 31 Prestige Plaza, Miamisburg, Ohio. Friday’s game starts at 6:40 p.m. CST.

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