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MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I'm sorry not everyone heard or knew or didn't pay attention. Mass hysteria tweets Amt (stic) help anything. I am open to listen to good comments."
— From @KU_BBallCamping, the official twitter account of the Kansas basketball camping, on Feb. 15.
1945 students were in attendance for the Mizzou lottery, with almost 300 camp groups.
From @KU_BBallCamping
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many groups successfully camped for every home game this season?
A:24.
THE MORNING BREW
Basketball lottery is a special tradition
It's no secret that we take our basketball seriously here at the University of Kansas. This week, I'm not going to talk about how amazing it was to be a part of the atmosphere at the Missouri game, nor am I going to talk about how we are coming off our eighth consecutive Big 12 title.
Instead, I'm going to talk about what makes the lottery and camping process so special and unique. Before I get into that, I'd like to explain the rules of the lottery for those of us who don't know exactly how it works. For those of you who know all of this, feel free to breeze through this next paragraph.
After every home game, a lottery is held inside Allen Fieldhouse (or the nearby parking garage for those of you at the Ohio State lottery); 6 a.m. on weekdays or 8 a.m. on weekends. This is an opportunity for students who already have their tickets to get better seats in the student section. After a member of your group writes your name down on the list, someone yells "ROLL CALL!" When your group is called, for every five people present in your group (30 maximum),
someone gets to draw a number. The lowest number picked is the order that your group will enter through the student entrance for the game.
You would think we would stop there, but no. That's just the lottery; we still have to camp. Depending on the game, camping could start anywhere from the day of the game to a week before the game starting right after the lottery picks, as was the case for Missouri.
Here's where strategy comes into play. You and your entire group must figure out each other's schedules and assign camping times for everyone in the group. My group found the easiest way to do this
was to start a spreadsheet online that we all could log into and add in our names. We did ours in two-hour increments, but any time works as long as someone is always there from the time doors open to the time doors close. Camping goes from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.
Once camping starts, it's a sneaky mind game to move up to the next spot up on the list. Anyone camping can call "ROLL CALLI" at any point throughout the day, and if no one is present when they call your group, out comes the pen and off the list your group goes and all of those hours put towards camping were for nothing.
But here's what fascinates me the most about all of this: It's all student-run. For something that is just operated off a few sheets of paper and some number tiles, you would think it would be susceptible to cheating and slight bending of the rules, and if there is a problem it usually goes to a group vote on the matter. But this whole process has become so engrained in the culture of basketball at Kansas that people don't mess around
with it.
Just to put it all into perspective, students sometimes have no problem pushing the snooze button one too many times to sleep right through their 8 a.m. class (not that I would ever do such a thing as a student), but for the lottery students may set two, three or sometimes four alarms to ensure they make it to the 6 a.m. camping slot.
All of this just goes to show how much students are willing to do just to get better seats inside the Fieldhouse. When you can get a turnout of almost 2,000 students at a lottery at 8 a.m. just for an opportunity to be closer to the action, it really shows how dedicated Kansas fans are and how respected the lottery system is.
How cool is that?
This week in athletics
Edited by Max Lush
Monday
Men's Golf
Louisiana Classics
All day
Lafayette, La.
Tuesday
Baseball
North Dakota
3 p.m.
Lawrence
Wednesday
Women's Basketball Big 12 Championship TBA Kansas City, Mo.
Men's Basketball
Oklahoma or Texas
A&M
2:00 p.m.
Sprint Center, Kansas
City, Mo.
Thursday
Friday
Men's Basketball
Big 12 Championship
Semifinal
6:30 p.m.
Sprint Center, Kansas
City, Mo.
Saturday
Men's Basketball
Big 12 Championship
Final
5:00 p.m.
Sprint Center, Kansas
City, Mo.
Sunday
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Oklahoma State
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