Wanting to see a college's basketball team play for a national championship can create travel complications.
But what if two of your school's teams made it to the promised land at the same time, and at sites that are nearly 500 miles apart?
That's what happened for Minnesota State Mankato.
The Maverick women played Friday night in St. Joseph, Missouri, beating Texas Woman's University for the D2 national championship.
The following day, the MSU men edged Nova Southeastern University Evansville, Indiana for their own title.
For MSU president Edward Inch and athletic director Kevin Buisman, it was an easy decision on how to take in the drama on both fronts.
Get in the car and drive for this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
And drive.
And drive.
"When both teams made the Elite Eight, Kevin said, how do I get there?" said Scott Nelsen, associate director of athletics - communication and marketing at Minnesota State.
"It's basically a straight shot across I-70 across Missouri and southern Illinois, and Evansville is right on the edge of the Illinois/Indiana border," Nelsen said.
The women's Elite Eight had games on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with the men on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
And both Maverick teams won twice to get to the championship games.
The Minnesota State Mankato fight song
That means Inch and Buisman had already made the trip four times before the women tip off Friday night against Texas Women's University.
They've done it enough that they have the timing down pat.
"Six hours and 53 minutes," said Nelsen, who's been with the women's team all week and will join his superiors for the final ride early Saturday.
"We've had watch parties here all week for our men's team," he said.
After Friday's game, a dominating 89-73 win by the Mavericks over Texas Woman's University, it was a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call and one final trip to Evansville to see the Maverick men's team pull off the 88-85 victory.
The win over Nova Southeastern was sealed on a three-point basket by Kyreese Willingham with 0.8 seconds left.
The former Waconia High School standout is one of 16 Minnesota natives on the two national championship teams.
"Pretty easy to get up and know that you're going go watch your team playing in the national championship," Nelson said.
This is the second time the same school has had teams in both the men's and women's Division II final at the same time.
In 1984, Central Missouri not only had the two teams playing, both of them won the title.
The MSU women's basketball team won the 2009 D2 national championship.
Saturday is the first appearance in the D2 final for the MSU men.