Volume 124 Issue 105
kansan.com
Monday, February 27, 2012
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is surrounded by the media and fans as he walks out for a press conference after winning the rivalry against the Missouri Tigers Saturday afternoon at Allen Fieldhouse.
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LOCAL BUSINESS
Border Showdown boosts downtown
Students shouting in excitement on Massachusetts St. after KU's basketball victory against Missouri Saturday. After the game the streets flooded with celebrating people
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REBEKKA SCHLICHTING
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Fuzzy's Taco Shop is new to the University basketball fanbase. "We ordered up knowing it was going to be a big weekend. They tell me that win or lose it gets pretty crazy after the game," co-owner, John Records said. It opened in the fall semester and has been doing well in business.
Defeating the University of Missouri in Allen Fieldhouse for possibly the last time had a positive impact on the bars and restaurants on Massachusetts Street.
But even before the game began, Massachusetts Street businesses were preparing for the crowds. Buffalo Wild Wings started gearing up two days before the game.
"We ordered extra plates and cups to make sure that we don't run out of anything. It might be close to one of our record-breaking days," Ashley Crowder, Buffalo Wild Wings manager, said.
"We're pretty geared to a college crowd. Its limited service and the menu items are inexpensive, which caters to college students," Records said.
have a good time, celebrate and enjow themselves."
"The bar business is obviously doing very well because I haven't gone into the bar yet because I've been waiting in line." Anthony Idika, a senior from Kansas City, Mo., said.
Curtis Mandele, a pizza chef at Papa Keno's Pizzeria, said that Saturday was crazier and busier than any other game day this season. If the baseketball team hadn't won, they wouldn't have gotten
"Revenge, payback," Robinson said. "It definitely feels good. It felt like someone just jumped us and ran away and we finally caught up
On Saturday night, the line for Brother's Bar and Grill reached the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets. There were also lines in front of other popular bars.
"I feel like it's really active. If we would have lost the game, Mass Street would be really dead tonight, but it's not, we won the game!" Drew Robinson, a graduate from Prairie Village said. "I was here for the national championship game so I know what crazy goes down here, but I haven't experienced anything like this yet. There are lots of people and there are linés everywhere. People just want to go out and
such a large amount of customers.
"We probably did about $2,500 worth of business from 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m." Mandele said.
MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
The No. 4 Jayhawks (24-5, 14-2) trailed by 19 points with 17 minutes left, but erased the deficit in an arduous second half and won 87-86 in overtime, clinching at least a share of an eighth consecutive Big 12 title.
It may become, quite possibly, one of the most epocaly play in Kansas basketball history. The kind of play that shows up with Mario Chalmers and Wilt Chamberlain on the pre-game videos. The kind of play that, years from now, helps people remember this rivalry when it lived. And he did it, so he says, with his eyes closed.
The downtown atmosphere after the game was described as crazy, loud, and exciting. Jefferson's Restaurant had people showing up before they were open. The crowd was wild with a loud mixture of pitchers, shots.
Robinson abandoned senior guard Kim English in the right corner after sophomore guard Phil "Flip" Pressey ignored a screen and dashed for the hoop. With two seconds to play in regulation time, Robinson hung in the air and swatted Presey's layup attempt with a hammering right hand, denying the Tigers a victory, sending the game into overtime and riling the Fieldhouse crowd to a volume that was deafening.
The game, the last of its kind, the final Border Showdown with conference-title implications, was tied at 75 when junior forward Thomas Robinson blocked the shot.
"Thomas isn't a shot blocker," coach Bill Self said. "That was a big-time play from a big-time player."
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high fives, jumping and hugging strangers, according to Chelsea Jennings, a bartender on duty.
"Everybody was so pumped up. There were only two Missouri fans in here. Everybody kind of picked on them a little bit," Jennings said.
Edited by Christine Curtin
CRYPTOQUIPS 4A
OPINION 5A
CLASSIFIEDS 2B
CROSSWORD 4A
Significantly less people sang "home of the Chiefs" during the game, and the words "home of the bravel" appeared on the Jumbotron with the image of the American flag waving in the background.
The "whoo" was less audible than it has previously been, but was still present in the crowd even though a Kansan poll showed 85 percent of voters want it taken out.
SPORTS 8B
SUDOKU 4A
Rachel Salyer
When campers gathered last Saturday for the lottery at Allen Fieldhouse, organizers asked those in attendance not to "who," yell "home of the Chiefs" or wear anything but blue. They said that Bill Self didn't approve of the chants and asked campers to follow tradition.
GAME DAY
HOW DID THE "WHOO" DO?
Visit kansan.com to hear
Saturday's crowd at
Allen Fieldhouse.
Since the beginning of the season, a fight to take the "whoo" out of the Rock Chalk Chant and stop fans from yelling "home of the Chiefs" at the end of the National Anthem has erupted.
As fans gathered to watch the final installment of the Border Showdown Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse, there was another battle brewing between the University's men's basketball fans.
Self's request taken seriously by students
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