So, it's Friday in Kentucky and your team is 900 miles away. What does a red-blooded wbball fan say? "Road Trip!"

Brad Bolte watched from afar as the Northern Kentucky University women's basketball team won its quarterfinal and semifinal games in the NCAA Division II tournament earlier this week.

With his beloved Norse set to play South Dakota in today's championship game, Bolte decided to join a handful of other NKU fans and the school's pep band on a chartered bus that left campus Friday morning bound for faraway Kearney, Neb.

"Spur of the moment," Bolte said. "It doesn't get any better than that."