It's not just the long trip. It's that the long trip doesn't make sense. Why would you send 55 teams (just a guess) three hours or more West when you have the same accomodations much closer to home? Hays makes a lot of sense for 1A-3A, but for 5A-6A it's not logical. Long trips cost money, and that's not something a lot of schools in Kansas have right now. Plus, Manhattan rules Hays drools.