Lawrence, KS

Let me start off by saying that I am a Hoosier at Heart and no other basketball program will ever woo me as much as Indiana Basketball. Indiana Basketball is King in the state of Indiana and as far as I'm concerned the world as well. So anyways... I went to this place called Lawrence, Kansas this weekend and let me tell you. I give it about a A- for a college town especially in it's respects as a basketball town. Sherron Collins when seen in person playing is a beast and can make cuts like no other player I have seen play except Eric Gordon. I'll tell you one thing Lawrence you have a good thing going with your basketball program, stop worrying about your football coach because nobody wants to coach at a school with your type of basketball program... it will never happen...


We didn't get a chance to really explore the studio space of all the college bar scene, but we did go to The Wheel for a pregame warm up to get some bood lights to help fight the cold weather while we walked to the stadium. We successfully stole seats from some Kansas friends during this bar visit (SUCCESS). Our other place of venture that evening post-game was a bar called The Cave. The Cave was a brand new bar that included 3 levels in it's poor excuse to be a Jersey boyz favorite dance club (I did actually see two guitos here that evening). Each level comprised of a different type of bar.


Level 1: Wine Bar (Lame....)
Level 2: Shot Bar (Shotz, shotz, shotz, shotz - see Lil' John's rendition)
Level 3: Martini Bar (It is not a Martini Bar)


We spent our entire night at the Martini Bar which a Jerzey Boy would call heaven. 3 seperate bars that had beer and shot specials and in the middle, a dance floor that included 1 disco ball, lasers, and a dj mixing hits from the 80s/90s/2000s/2010. I heard no complaints except for one. A friend of mine who could not get over the fact that the dj would not play the mash-up hit from Gloria Estefan. It's the song that goes like, "c'mon shake ya body and do that conga, da, da, di, da, da, da..."" at least that's how he explained it. This is definitely one of those songs that you won't have the CD or on your best hits ipod play list, but I know EVERY person that listens to this likes it even if they claim not to. It's what I like to a call a dancing white elephant because if you're in a car with this song playing no one will change the station because there is a huge elephant (the conga music) in the car and no one can get to the radio controls.


From the pictures below I have a picture of one of the tickets we purchased from a scalper. Lesson learned from that experience is that if you wait long enough you will get the price you want. If you ever want to learn about business sit back and watch scalpers, you'll get in A in Microeconomics just spending a half hour. The guy we bought tickets from in the beginning told us we would never get the tickets for our asking price. Of course 30 minutes later and 10 minutes into the 1st half the guy finally came down to our asking price of $65.00. We ended up buying from someone else since the other guy came down first. I'll have to say whoever that guy was that told us we couldn't get tickets for $65... You sir... supplied more entertainment for us than the actual game itself... so I Thank you...

Kansas vs. Iowa State

The Wheel (Alumni/Frat Bar) *similar to Nick's if you've been to Indiana w/o the frats

Ticket Face Value: $85/Scalped Price: $65