Beware, Kansas University faithful: Fans at the University of Missouri are stockpiling Bucknell T-shirts.

Ever since KU was knocked out of the NCAA Basketball Tournament March 25 by the small Pennsylvania college — in a game one commentator called the biggest upset in modern NCAA Tournament history — Missouri Tiger fans have been buying Bucknell shirts to taunt their Jayhawk rivals.

“Our Web orders have picked up greatly,” said Doris McLain, supervisor at the Bucknell Bookstore. “We’re doing shipping all over the country, but we’re really busy sending shirts to Missouri. I don’t know what the situation is out there, but whatever it is, it’s good for us.”

McLain declined to disclose sales totals but said sale of merchandise — and especially T-shirts and hats — had more than doubled since last Friday. The majority of the Web orders have been sent to Missouri and Kansas, she said.

“We’re just happy to have the people ordering,” she said. “We’re happy to have their orders and that people know who the Bucknell Bison are.”

One Missouri fan who ordered a shirt posted his intentions on the www.tigerboard.com Web site Thursday: “I’ll be sure to wear mine around the KC metro area.” Another said the KU-Mizzou game next year in Columbia, Mo., should be declared “Bucknell Day.”

T-shirts celebrating Bucknell's NCAA upset over KU sell well in Missouri.

“I can’t wait to see the Missouri-Kansas game at Missouri next year, to see how many Bison logos I can point out,” said Jon Terry, assistant athletic director at Bucknell. “I’m sure they wouldn’t mind bringing up what happened in Oklahoma City. The more blue and orange we can get in the Heartland the better.”

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