University of Wisconsin fans have long had the reputation for traveling well, and the red-sweater crowd figures to live up to its billing in Detroit this weekend for the NCAA tournament’s Midwest Regional.
Badger backers have always had to pay their own way, though. That won’t be the case for hundreds of fans of UW’s Sweet 16 opponent, Davidson College. A convoy of coach buses are warming up for the 650-mile drive from North Carolina, ready to deliver a wave of Davidson students being treated to a weekend getaway by the trustees of the 1,700-student private school.