Thursday, April 3, 2008
Every KU student who signed up for Final Four tickets in the student ticket lottery hit the jackpot.
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said all 230 students who signed up for the student ticket lottery would receive lower-level tickets to the basketball games.
Marchiony said tickets in the lower level area cost $220 but that the lottery winners would pay only $170 for those tickets, which is the price of the upper level tickets.
Students were to be alerted of the lottery via an e-mail that was sent out by the Athletics Department during spring break, but many students said they did not receive the e-mail and knew nothing of the lottery. Several lottery winners said they did not receive the e-mail either.
Marchiony said he was not sure if all students received the e-mail or just students who had purchased the all sports package.
Steve Haenchen, Overland Park senior and lottery winner, said he did not receive the e-mail, but he knew other people who did. Haenchen said he knew about the lottery because he entered it last year and won tickets. He said he found the link to enter it this year on the Athletics Department’s Web site.
Haenchen said he was not surprised to win tickets again this year. He booked his flight and hotel in November so his trip would be cheaper. Haenchen said he was only slightly worried about ticket prices at that time.
“I figured we’d be going to the Final Four so I took a bet,” Haenchen said. “I don’t care. I’ll pay whatever it takes.”
Jennifer Brewer, Leawood senior and lottery winner, said one of her friends sent her the link to enter the lottery. She said she did not think her friend had received the e-mail and like Haenchen, he had found the link on the Athletics Department’s Web site.
Daniel Wulfkuhle, Perry sophomore and lottery winner, said a co-worker who received the e-mail told him about the lottery, but he said most of the people he talked to did not know about the lottery.
He said many of his friends found out about the lottery only after he said he was going to the Final Four on his Facebook.
Meg O’Brien, Omaha Neb., freshman, said she received the e-mail, but she could not afford the trip, so she did not enter.
Jordan Kallas, Eden Prairie, Minn., senior, said the Athletics Department usually did a good job of notifying students about events, but that he did not receive the e-mail. He said he did not know about the lottery until a classmate mentioned he had won.
Kallas said that he was not going to the Final Four, but that he might have if he had won the lottery. Kallas said he knew about the lottery from years past, but that he did not know when or how to apply.
Wulfkuhle said before he won the lottery he had already planned on not going to the Final Four. He said he changed his mind only because the Athletics Department had said it would not issue refunds to lottery winners.
Tuesday evening the Athletics Department issued another statement saying it would issue refunds, but Daniel said he would still go.
“I’m still happy that I’m going to go,” Wulfkuhle said. “I could have canceled my ticket now, but I already got myself all pumped up for it.”
Brewer said since she had won the tickets, she had received four e-mails from people she did not know asking her to contact them if she was not going to use her ticket. She said she had also received e-mails from students she did not know asking if she wanted to carpool with them to San Antonio.
—Edited by Sasha Roe
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