Best places to watch the mens BB game in DSM or Ankeny?
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I don’t go anywhere anymore so I have no advice, but this post reminded me of the good ole days when my buddies and I used to take the first Friday of the tournament off and go to 3 Bag and get absolutely **** hammered watching basketball all day, then get one of our wives to come get us like a carpool at the end the night. $300 at the McDonald’s drive thru and 5 stops later, the selected wife would be none too happy.
Should be a LOT of Cyclone TV options in the DSM area now with ISU women playing at 10:30am and ISU men tipping off 12:30pm on Friday.
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Whiskey River in Ankeny, supporter of ISU, will have the game on with Ames Lager flowing like the Mississippi.
I would venture to guess there are close to 100 bars in the Des Moines metro area.
“Cyclones Bars” as in walking into it you can just see it’s a Cyclone Bar=0
Whiskey River is atleast owned by a Cyclone supporter as is Uptown in Ankeny but that’s more a restaurant.
Most bars are neutral or pro Hawkeye unfortunately.
No one is willing to go all in on the Cyclones.
This is my biggest pet peeve of living in DSM metro. Thousands of Cyclone grads & ISU fans yet EVERY bar has to be "neutral" (or worse be all TavernHawk.) A 30-45 min drive from campus should mean something, especially when compared to a 2 hour away school.
The Front Row looks like Herky threw up and Hayden Fry diarrhea'd in it, but a DSM business puts up slightly more Iowa State decor to Hawkeye and DSM somehow won't allow it?
The Keg Stand was CLOSE once to being a Cyclone (mostly) bar. But now it's Westtown Tap. No clue of any ISU favoritism remains or if it's just another neutral bar.
Might not be what you're after, but heard on Murph & Andy that the Palms theatre in Waukee will be showing our game on Friday. They said it's $10 to get in, but includes a $10 voucher for concessions, too.
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For whatever reason bar owners haven’t caught up to the 50/50 fan base split. They still think it’s 1990. Really incredible how few bars are owned (probably one)by Cyclones compared to Tavern Hawks(probably 50).
This was posted on their Facebook page an hour ago. Please don't show up too early, I need a place to sit
The Station is another great ISU option. By the end of the year, the newly opened Des Moines Athletic Club, downtown, will be open. The owner, Nick, is an ISU grad and buddies with Blum. Ames Lager will be available at all times!
3Bag was a fun time! Had multiple large projection screens and decent food so was a good place to watch the tourney in general. One of the nights they had a hot wings special that one of my roommates would go to most weeks then regret it the next morning after over-doing it both on the wings and drinks
