Iowa City, IA (AP)- It would have been a great college prank, but the Iowa athletic department crushed it. The Illinois student spirit group "Orange Krush" had its order for 200 tickets to the men's basketball game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Saturday canceled Wednesday after Iowa discovered the person who made the purchase falsely claimed the tickets were for a Boys and Girls Club in Champaign. Iowa issued a refund for $5,400 and donated the 200 tickets to the Boys and Girls Club of Cedar Rapids. Iowa athletics tweeted that when it contacted the Champaign Boys and Girls Club about the order, it was obvious the club did not buy the tickets. "When contacting the individual who made the original ticket order," the statement said, "they admitted to falsely ordering tickets under the non-profit organization." That person was Kilton Rauman, an Illinois senior and vice president of Illini Pride, the umbrella organization for Orange Krush. Rauman said Thursda
The Iowa athletic department voided the tickets an Illinois spirit group purchased under an assumed identity for the men s basketball game in Iowa City on Saturday. The group known as