Are you in favor of a potential scrimmage between #KUbball and Missouri for hurricane relief?
— Matt Tait (@mctait) October 13, 2017
With rumors of a possible scrimmage, for charity, between the Kansas and Missouri men’s basketball teams later this month dominating sports talk in the area late Thursday afternoon, one natural question came to mind.
Are Kansas fans excited or upset about the idea of renewing the Border War with the Tigers, even if only for a day?
A quick Twitter poll that was open for just 15 hours drew more than 1,700 votes and revealed that people appear be split down the middle, with 52 percent of voters saying they were against the idea and the other 48 percent saying they couldn’t wait for it.
[While there still has been no official word about whether the scrimmage will actually happen,][1] it’s worth noting that this is far from a slam dunk, at least from the Kansas side of things.
Sure, the idea behind the game is a good one — old rivals come together to raise money for hurricane relief. How can anyone argue with a good cause like that?
But it seems as if there are more than a few KU fans who still believe the Jayhawks and Tigers should never play again because, in their minds, it was Mizzou who ended the rivalry and the Jayhawks don’t own them anything.
That debate will rage on for a while. Possibly even decades. And the particulars have been well documented throughout the past few years.
What will be interesting is to see how the attendance breaks down at Sprint Center, if this scrimmage is in fact played. The guess here is that the crowd advantage would got to the Tigers, with the advantage on the court clearly going to Kansas.
Time will tell if either of those guesses are true or if the game even happens. But, at least based on a little feedback from Twitter, it’s clear that not everyone is giddy about the potential game.
[1]: http://www2.kusports.com/news/2017/oct/12/border-war-back/
