The Big 12 Men's Basketball All-Stars are in the midst of a two-week trip through Europe. For more on the team's trip, click here.

DAY 5
Aug. 9, 2002

Friday was a travel day on the Big 12 All-Stars 2002 Scandinavian Tour. Following breakfast at the hotel in Stockholm, the team and travel party boarded a bus for the 425-kilometer drive to Oslo, Norway.

Most of the players slept through the six-and-a-half hour bus ride, broken up by lunch at a roadside service station/restaurant. Most players ordered hamburgers or baconburgers, but weren't overly impressed by the taste of the meat. "That burger tasted like sausage," Blair Wilson of Colorado said.

The drive west from Stockholm across Sweden to the Norwegian border took the All-Stars through scant populated countryside filled with lakes and trees. The hours were passed by sleeping and the viewing of "Dumb and Dumber" and "Tin Cup."

"Very long," was how Nebraska sophomore Jake Muhleisen summed up the trip. "We got lost and backtracked and it took a while, but we saw two good movies."

Jake was involved in perhaps the most noteworthy event of the day, when Jason Klotz of Texas and Blair Wilson poured water on him as he slept on the floor of the bus. "I was mad when Klotz dumped water on me," Jake said. "It's funny now, but it wasn't funny at the time."

The team arrived in the Norwegian capital of Oslo at approximately 7 p.m. local time, and checked into the Clarion Hotel Christiana. Not a very eventful day.

The All-Stars compete against the Norwegian National Team Saturday night and Sunday night.