Join the KUsports.com crew Thursday night at Abe & Jake’s for our KU basketball season tip-off party

By Matt Tait     Oct 25, 2017
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Six nights from tonight, Allen Fieldhouse will be rocking and another Kansas basketball season officially will be under way, when the Jayhawks play host to Pitt State at 7 p.m. in their home exhibition opener of the 2017-18 season.

To celebrate the arrival of the 120th season of Kansas basketball, the team at KUsports.com has put together a fun evening that promises to appeal to Kansas basketball fans of all ages.

Join us, from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, at Abe & Jake’s Landing in Downtown Lawrence for our first ever KUsports.com season tip-off party. Grab your friends and family members and come hang out with the KUsports.com staff and dozens of other KU basketball fans, who, like you, are dying for the start of the season to arrive.

We’ll have games and prizes, free food and drinks, fun for the whole family and excellent giveaways, prizes and interviews from the KUsports.com crew.

A few members of the KU cheerleading squad, along with Big Jay, will join us to usher in the 2017-18 season. And we’ll have pop-a-shot games and bags so you can scratch that competitive itch if all of the preseason hoops hype gets you a little fired up.

Tom Keegan and I will be hosting the event and we’ll have time to take a few questions about this year’s team and the upcoming season from the audience and we’ll also welcome a few specials guests to the stage who know a thing or two about what it felt like to bring home the 2008 national title 10 seasons ago.

So clear your schedule, grab a friend or four and come celebrate the start of the 2017-18 KU basketball season with KUsports.com and Abe & Jake’s.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.