Little advice

[Cicada]

Got tickets to the Gopher/Iowa game next Sunday. Never been to a Gopher game before. Where is the best place to park and how early should we get there?

Thanks for the help.

[Scott M]

Get there an hour before the tip and you can walk around the concourse. There are some old photos, player profiles, trophies, etc. Buying a program might be worth it your first trip so you can read about the team, player, building, coaches, etc. There are lots of ramps that'll have event parking. I've found places to park for free on University, but you have to get there early. Otherwise I usually park at the Oak Street Ramp.

Check out this Map of the East Bank Campusto find a place to park.

The popular chant when the Hawks come to town is "Who hates Iowa?" "We hate Iowa." but since it hasn't been much of a rivalry lately its kinda toned down. The best chants are saved for when Bucky comes to town, but we don't get a home game with the Badgers this year.

[Cicada]

Thank you. With my usual luck, we'd not find a parking place, get lost, miss the tip and end up in a bar watching it on tv. Now I feel better about the whole thing.

[Harmonica Bear]

You'll love it! I had season tickets back in the Clem days. The Barn gets crazy! Good times for sure, especially when they go on a big run.

I'd also recommend learning the rouser:

Minnesota, hats off to thee,

To thy colors true we shall ever be,

Firm and strong, united are we.

Rah! Rah! Rah! for Ski-U-Mah,

RAH! RAH! RAH! RAH!

Rah for the U. of M.

Minnesota, hats off to thee,

To thy colors true we shall ever be,

Firm and strong, united are we.

Rah! Rah! Rah! for Ski-U-Mah,

RAH! RAH! RAH! RAH!

Rah for the U. of M.

M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A!

Minnesota! Minnesota!

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah GOPHERS!

[Scott M]

Good point on the rouser, you have to know that and when to clap during it. Our family has had season tickets since 1970 so I usually get to a few games. Had tickets as a student during the Monson years (I know a few chants that aren't appropriate, I think things got more lewd in the student section with each passing year as evidenced by F Bo Ryan chants a couple years ago). Loved how loud the place got in the Clem years.

There is nothing like being there when the crowd wills the team to go on a run, Gophers steal the ball, a run out ensues, somebody finishes with a monster dunk, the crowd goes bananas, and the other coach calls timeout. The timeout ALWAYS makes it worse. It's like signaling defeat. The crowd knows it and the roof just about blows off the building during the timeout. My wife wonders why I can't sit still and be quiet when I watch a game at home...once you've been to the barn, nothing compares.

[Harmonica Bear]

AMEN!

[Cicada]

The rouser is a breeze. Substitute "Cooper High" for "Minnesota" and that was our song at Cooperstown, ND. Of course, that was way back when, in the years before consolidation.