Road Trip for MU Game

[warrior_rugby15]

Me and some buddies of mine are thinking about doing a road trip to one of the MU away basketball games this year. I wanted to ask everyone which game should we do?

The games we are considering are: Vanderbilt (NYE too?), Louisville, Pittsburgh, and Georgetown (some-what).

What would you recomend?

Things we are considering are:
-Will we be able to get tickets (where and for how much)
-Best city to party in (any MU Bars, bars, or places to go).
-Driving route: Not concerning distance, but will the drive will be tolerable: cops, traffic, etc. And yes I know it will be the middle of winter.
-Where to stay
-Get best value for our money

[reinko]

Louisville will be a pretty penny getting tickets, this is the first year the YUM! Center is opened.  I know from personal experience getting tickets at Pitt is hard and expensive.  The best value would be DC, lots of alumni, MU bars, and lots of choices to stay.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Pop for some Air Tranny tix down to Tampa

[reinko]

Good thinking Doc.  And while you are saving for a trip to Tampa, save your holiday and b-day $ for trip to Mons Venus.

[warrior_rugby15]

Love to go down to tampa, but its on a wednesday

[sailwi]

My Mu buddies (79) are thinking of NYC and SH game, every year we hope for SJU at MSG on a Saturday.

[warrior_rugby15]

Louisville will be a pretty penny getting tickets, this is the first year the YUM! Center is opened.  I know from personal experience getting tickets at Pitt is hard and expensive.  The best value would be DC, lots of alumni, MU bars, and lots of choices to stay.

and students from both louisville and pitt will be back in session, so it will be harder to find tickets

[jficke13]

I did G'town a couple years back. Great town, fun place to be when the Warriors trounce the Hoyas. Plus, there's a good MU bar, the Penn Quarter I think it's called.

[john_cocktoasten]

I've been to Ville, G-town and Knoxville and I would suggest that you to go to DC for the weekend. You won't have any issues getting tickets because the play at the Wizards stadium.  Plus, DC is a great town to party in and if you stay on embassy row you can walk to a bunch of bars.

[GOMU1104]

You can get relatively cheap flights to DC, if you want to avoid the long drive.  This year's game is on sunday, so you could fly out Friday morning, and have almost 2 days to do stuff before the game Sunday afternoon.

And yes, the bar is Penn Quarter Sports Tavern, right down the street from the Verizon Center.  After the game last year, that place turned into "Murphy's East." It was fantastic.

[muarmy81]

Good to know...I just moved to the Hampton Roads area for work and one of our job sites is in DC...sounds like I'll need to be there the monday after. 

[mikem91288]

you should go down to KC for the CBE. Me and my buddies are going to see us hand it to the Dukies. . . I hear lots of good stuff about KC, nice new downtown with lots of cool bars.

[NYWarrior]

Big East Tournament. 

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Vanderbilt...Nashville is a great town!

PRN will be in the house!

[Windyplayer]

I was about to express my disappointment that no one had suggested Nashville until I read the last post. Nashville is a really, really fun city. I'm from Chicago so needless to say, I'm not in to country. However, it's hard not to enjoy yourself when you're down there on the strip and there's live (quality) country bands at virtually every bar and everyone's honky tonkin'. Luckily, my fiancee loved it as well so I was able to parlay that into a weekend vacation in late December!   

[MU B2002]

Nashville.  Granted on a week night, but still an unbelievable town.  Especially if you like to have some live music with your beer. And the "talent" is amazing.  I actually just moved from there and am a little pissed that I had to give away third row seats for the game.  Stupid move to Florida.

[77ncaachamps]

BE Tournament, hands f--kin down.

Expensive place to stay, but gawdam...college basketball games non-stop...it's simply profane.