Mike Yoder/Journal-World PhotoAllen Fieldhouse looks like a campground.
Dozens of students line the arena’s concourse in hopes of nabbing premium seats to Monday’s home basketball game against Missouri.
“It’ll be worth it,” said camper Kayla Schippers. “It’s Missouri our big rival.”
The No. 2 Jayhawks’ success added to the success of the No. 20 Tigers has led to one of the biggest groups of student campers in recent memory. They already have tickets to the sold-out game they just want good seats.
The fieldhouse opened at 8 a.m. Sunday for students to wait for Missouri seats. Thirty groups participated in a lottery to determine the order for admittance at Monday’s game. Since then, another 20 groups have been added to the list.
Each camper can save a seat for as many as 30 other students. Groups must be represented at the fieldhouse from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. If they miss random roll calls, they’re dropped to the bottom of the list.
The camping ritual is reserved for students only. Other general admission ticket-holders must wait in line Monday night.
Schippers and Jessie Forman, both freshmen, were representing a group of 30 Oliver Hall residents Wednesday afternoon. The group was fifth in line for seats, and members were rotating in two-hour shifts.
“We have a girl she’s so organized,” Schippers said. “She has the schedule typed up and highlighted for us.”
And if somebody missed their shift?
“We would kill them,” Forman said. “That one person would mess up eight days of camping out.”
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Nearby, freshman Kayla Stanley was curled up in a tent, reading a book. She was saving a spot for 30 members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and their friends. She said she hoped KU players would visit with campers later in the week.
“I hope Jeff (Boschee) comes out and talks to me, but I doubt that will happen,” she said.
Jeff Herrmann, a freshman, was passing time by playing football on a Sony PlayStation. He was taking a shift for about 20 Oliver Hall residents who often camp out for games but not usually this early.
“The time flies when you’re playing video games,” he said.
It was the first time for Jerry Fenske’s 15 friends to camp out for a game. The junior was reading a book to pass his two-hour shift.
“All the other games we’ve come to, we stood in the (general admission) student line, and we’re tired of being so far away from the court,” he said. “We want to be next to the court.”
Darren Cook, director of facilities for the athletics department, said there was an unusually high number of student campers. Only about 30 groups were camping Friday, the day before KU’s game against Oklahoma.
“There’s always a great enthusiasm,” Cook said. “There’s a great rivalry. You can expect when MU comes to town or K-State comes to town, the students will show up.”
Mike Yoder/Journal-World PhotoAllen Fieldhouse looks like a campground.
Dozens of students line the arena’s concourse in hopes of nabbing premium seats to Monday’s home basketball game against Missouri.
“It’ll be worth it,” said camper Kayla Schippers. “It’s Missouri our big rival.”
The No. 2 Jayhawks’ success added to the success of the No. 20 Tigers has led to one of the biggest groups of student campers in recent memory. They already have tickets to the sold-out game they just want good seats.
The fieldhouse opened at 8 a.m. Sunday for students to wait for Missouri seats. Thirty groups participated in a lottery to determine the order for admittance at Monday’s game. Since then, another 20 groups have been added to the list.
Each camper can save a seat for as many as 30 other students. Groups must be represented at the fieldhouse from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. If they miss random roll calls, they’re dropped to the bottom of the list.
The camping ritual is reserved for students only. Other general admission ticket-holders must wait in line Monday night.
Schippers and Jessie Forman, both freshmen, were representing a group of 30 Oliver Hall residents Wednesday afternoon. The group was fifth in line for seats, and members were rotating in two-hour shifts.
“We have a girl she’s so organized,” Schippers said. “She has the schedule typed up and highlighted for us.”
And if somebody missed their shift?
“We would kill them,” Forman said. “That one person would mess up eight days of camping out.”
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Nearby, freshman Kayla Stanley was curled up in a tent, reading a book. She was saving a spot for 30 members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and their friends. She said she hoped KU players would visit with campers later in the week.
“I hope Jeff (Boschee) comes out and talks to me, but I doubt that will happen,” she said.
Jeff Herrmann, a freshman, was passing time by playing football on a Sony PlayStation. He was taking a shift for about 20 Oliver Hall residents who often camp out for games but not usually this early.
“The time flies when you’re playing video games,” he said.
It was the first time for Jerry Fenske’s 15 friends to camp out for a game. The junior was reading a book to pass his two-hour shift.
“All the other games we’ve come to, we stood in the (general admission) student line, and we’re tired of being so far away from the court,” he said. “We want to be next to the court.”
Darren Cook, director of facilities for the athletics department, said there was an unusually high number of student campers. Only about 30 groups were camping Friday, the day before KU’s game against Oklahoma.
“There’s always a great enthusiasm,” Cook said. “There’s a great rivalry. You can expect when MU comes to town or K-State comes to town, the students will show up.”
Mike Yoder/Journal-World PhotoAllen Fieldhouse looks like a campground.
Dozens of students line the arena’s concourse in hopes of nabbing premium seats to Monday’s home basketball game against Missouri.
“It’ll be worth it,” said camper Kayla Schippers. “It’s Missouri our big rival.”
The No. 2 Jayhawks’ success added to the success of the No. 20 Tigers has led to one of the biggest groups of student campers in recent memory. They already have tickets to the sold-out game they just want good seats.
The fieldhouse opened at 8 a.m. Sunday for students to wait for Missouri seats. Thirty groups participated in a lottery to determine the order for admittance at Monday’s game. Since then, another 20 groups have been added to the list.
Each camper can save a seat for as many as 30 other students. Groups must be represented at the fieldhouse from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. If they miss random roll calls, they’re dropped to the bottom of the list.
The camping ritual is reserved for students only. Other general admission ticket-holders must wait in line Monday night.
Schippers and Jessie Forman, both freshmen, were representing a group of 30 Oliver Hall residents Wednesday afternoon. The group was fifth in line for seats, and members were rotating in two-hour shifts.
“We have a girl she’s so organized,” Schippers said. “She has the schedule typed up and highlighted for us.”
And if somebody missed their shift?
“We would kill them,” Forman said. “That one person would mess up eight days of camping out.”
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Nearby, freshman Kayla Stanley was curled up in a tent, reading a book. She was saving a spot for 30 members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and their friends. She said she hoped KU players would visit with campers later in the week.
“I hope Jeff (Boschee) comes out and talks to me, but I doubt that will happen,” she said.
Jeff Herrmann, a freshman, was passing time by playing football on a Sony PlayStation. He was taking a shift for about 20 Oliver Hall residents who often camp out for games but not usually this early.
“The time flies when you’re playing video games,” he said.
It was the first time for Jerry Fenske’s 15 friends to camp out for a game. The junior was reading a book to pass his two-hour shift.
“All the other games we’ve come to, we stood in the (general admission) student line, and we’re tired of being so far away from the court,” he said. “We want to be next to the court.”
Darren Cook, director of facilities for the athletics department, said there was an unusually high number of student campers. Only about 30 groups were camping Friday, the day before KU’s game against Oklahoma.
“There’s always a great enthusiasm,” Cook said. “There’s a great rivalry. You can expect when MU comes to town or K-State comes to town, the students will show up.”
Mike Yoder/Journal-World PhotoAllen Fieldhouse looks like a campground.
Dozens of students line the arena’s concourse in hopes of nabbing premium seats to Monday’s home basketball game against Missouri.
“It’ll be worth it,” said camper Kayla Schippers. “It’s Missouri our big rival.”
The No. 2 Jayhawks’ success added to the success of the No. 20 Tigers has led to one of the biggest groups of student campers in recent memory. They already have tickets to the sold-out game they just want good seats.
The fieldhouse opened at 8 a.m. Sunday for students to wait for Missouri seats. Thirty groups participated in a lottery to determine the order for admittance at Monday’s game. Since then, another 20 groups have been added to the list.
Each camper can save a seat for as many as 30 other students. Groups must be represented at the fieldhouse from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. If they miss random roll calls, they’re dropped to the bottom of the list.
The camping ritual is reserved for students only. Other general admission ticket-holders must wait in line Monday night.
Schippers and Jessie Forman, both freshmen, were representing a group of 30 Oliver Hall residents Wednesday afternoon. The group was fifth in line for seats, and members were rotating in two-hour shifts.
“We have a girl she’s so organized,” Schippers said. “She has the schedule typed up and highlighted for us.”
And if somebody missed their shift?
“We would kill them,” Forman said. “That one person would mess up eight days of camping out.”
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Nearby, freshman Kayla Stanley was curled up in a tent, reading a book. She was saving a spot for 30 members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and their friends. She said she hoped KU players would visit with campers later in the week.
“I hope Jeff (Boschee) comes out and talks to me, but I doubt that will happen,” she said.
Jeff Herrmann, a freshman, was passing time by playing football on a Sony PlayStation. He was taking a shift for about 20 Oliver Hall residents who often camp out for games but not usually this early.
“The time flies when you’re playing video games,” he said.
It was the first time for Jerry Fenske’s 15 friends to camp out for a game. The junior was reading a book to pass his two-hour shift.
“All the other games we’ve come to, we stood in the (general admission) student line, and we’re tired of being so far away from the court,” he said. “We want to be next to the court.”
Darren Cook, director of facilities for the athletics department, said there was an unusually high number of student campers. Only about 30 groups were camping Friday, the day before KU’s game against Oklahoma.
“There’s always a great enthusiasm,” Cook said. “There’s a great rivalry. You can expect when MU comes to town or K-State comes to town, the students will show up.”
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