The attempt is part of the pregame festivities for the TU men’s basketball game against Tulane.

The official attempt began promptly at 5:45 pm and lasted 15 minutes. A TU-sponsored after party, featuring additional pizza, drinks, and a beer garden immediately followed.

Owner of Andolini’s Worldwide and President of World Pizza Champions Mike Bausch partnered with The University of Tulsa to set a new world record for World’s Largest Pizza Party benefiting Make-A-Wish Oklahoma. The new record for 3,357 people simultaneously eating pizza was accomplished on Saturday, January 21 at the Reynolds Center on The University of Tulsa’s campus before the TU men’s basketball team took on Tulane.

The attempt was a charitable initiative of World Pizza Champions. The event raised $42,090 for Make-A-Wish Oklahoma, granting 8 waiting children’s wishes.

“This record attempt was logistically a challenge that took hundreds of people to pull off,” said

Mike Bausch, owner of Andolini’s Worldwide. “I am so proud of our community in how they came together all for a great cause. I never doubted the ability of our team nor the willingness of Tulsans to collaboratively step up and raise thousands of dollars for deserving kids and their families facing the unfathomable.”

The attempt is part of the pregame festivities for the TU men’s basketball game against Tulane.

The official attempt began promptly at 5:45 pm and lasted 15 minutes. A TU-sponsored after party, featuring additional pizza, drinks, and a beer garden immediately followed.

“Our campus has been buzzing with excitement for weeks,” said TU President Brad R. Carson. “As Tulsa’s university, TU strives to find ways to bring our community together and for ways to give back; setting a Guinness World Record is an epic way to do both.”

“We are so thankful the World Pizza Champions stepped up to this enormous challenge to put on what was not only an incredibly fun event, but also an incredibly successful one,” said Jane Rohweder, Senior Director of Development, Make-A-Wish Oklahoma . “We currently have 305 Oklahoma children waiting for their wish to come true.. Events like these help us grant wishes to such deserving individuals and we are so excited to make some calls soon to let our wish kids who have waited so patiently that their wish will be granted with the money raised from this event.