The annual campout for Big Blue Madness tickets just won’t stop getting bigger.A year after the 2013 edition obliterated the previous record, Tent City grew to an unprecedented size on Friday. At the final count of 2014 — as control cards were being distributed at 2 p.m. — approximately 770 tents had surrounded Memorial Coliseum in hopes of securing tickets to the highly anticipated madness event, topping the previous record mark of 755.Though campers are finished moving in, the party goes on. Friday night at the madness campout is typically the most festive of the week the Mother Nature appears wiling to cooperate with a perfect weather forecast. We’ll have more from the campout this evening, so stay tuned.

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