MINNEAPOLIS -- North Dakota State assistant men's basketball coach Jason Kemp was walking around the Metrodome floor Thursday in a T-shirt with a caricature of Bison football coach Craig Bohl on it. It was an attempt to please the good karma gods.
"Want to keep the Bohl magic," Kemp said.
The last time an NDSU team was at the Metrodome was in 2007 when the Bison football team defeated the University of Minnesota. The Gopher ticket office, which handles tickets for the NCAA regional, said a crowd of about 15,500 (the capacity is 32,000) is expected for the NDSU and Kansas first round game today.
About 2,500 single-session tickets were sold on Thursday and around 1,500 of those were set aside for will call.
It won't be the estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Bison fans who were on hand for the Gopher football game, but there will still be an NDSU influence.
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"The state is behind us," said center Lucas Moormann, a Dickinson native. "There are no pro teams so we're the ones that they're watching."
None of the Bison players were at the football game because of practice. They gathered at head coach Saul Phillips' house to watch it, though.
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