Tonight, Kansas and Iowa State will meet in the Big 12 Tournament championship game. It will certainly be a packed house in the Sprint Center as two teams with huge fanbases in the midwest square off. And that leads one to wonder if it is fair for the Big 12 to hold its championship tournament in Kanas City every year.
Every March, the Sprint Center is filled by throngs of fans from primarily three schools, Iowa State, Kansas State and Kansas. That is because fans from Ames must travel just 230 miles to get to K.C., while fans from Kansas State have to travel only 121 miles and Jayhawk fans have to somehow find the courage to make a 41-mile trek.