Anyone Ever Attend a UConn BB True Road Game

[cullaville]

My wife and I went to the ( brand new?) DuPont Pavilion in February of 1989 to see Cliffy and Phil play against Villanova. Cliff was a beast and Chris Smith played really well in regulation. We sat in the very back row with a cluster of about 15 UConn fans who we didn't know. We were all pretty obnoxious because we led for the vast majority of the game. I forget exactly what caused the collapse, we wound up losing in overtime and really heard it from the fans sitting around us. We deserved everything we got because we were overdoing it during the slst few minutes of regulation.

It may be the same game I remember being at. Up by 16 with about ten minutes to go and lost. I remember a little razzing. Wore my UCONN sweatshirt out to the local bars after the game.

 

[cullaville]

at St John's (Alumni Hall and MSG) Both great places to see a game. Anxioulsy waiting for the MSG games again.
Villanova at Dupont
at Seton Hall - Meadowlands not much reaction fro SHU fans
at UMASS- Curry Hicks Cage very rowdy place
Providence
Boston U reminded me of a high school gym
Fairfield (Alumni Hall at Fairfield - showing my age)
BC at Boston Garden
Rhode island

 

[Kemba429]

Ive been to a couple. At Georgetown in 2017 and at ECU in 2018. Wore UConn gear at both, no jeers though. There were a lot of Husky fans at the ECU game to my surprise. I know a family was definitely in attendance. Wanna say it was Whaleys, since hes from NC, but I could be wrong.

 

[alphasigko]

UConn vs Texas in Austin back in January 2011. The infamous Roscoe Smith heave game. Honestly it may be the best game I’ve ever been to.

I was there as well! I bet that there were perhaps no more than 50 of us in that sea of burnt orange! I was the guy yelling "GO HUSKIES" while the 'Horns were shooting their free throws! I agree that it was one of the best games I have ever witnessed in person!

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Every time we play Temple at home this gigantic WWE size type guy is there in full Owl gear losing his mind. I’m sure others have seen this dude?? I trust no one messes with him

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

About nine years ago I went to the RAC. Drove down with a buddy and as soon as I got through the toll, I noticed my Civic was accelerating funny. Soon after, my car couldn't make it to the apex of the off-ramp. The tow guy was a gentleman and asked us where we were going, so he dropped us off at the RAC free of charge, but tipped him a $20.

I loved the RAC: weird building, the oddest sounding building I've ever been in especially the way sound sustains in the corners...trippy stuff. Overall, it was a good time and fans were fun, just some fun ribbing back and forth. Unfortunately, not only did my car break down and the Huskies lost, but to get home, I had to:

1. Hail a cab to the nearest train station
2. Take a train to Penn Station
3. Said goodbye to my friend and took the subway to Grand Central
4. Take the Saturday 1:30 AM train to Stamford
5. Get picked up from the train station and got a friend to drop me off home.
6. Spent the following day at a New Jersey auto body shop, eventually selling the car for parts

On a much less uneventful note I went to watch UConn/Seton Hall @ The Prudential twice. Beautiful building and really easy to get to. The fans were all pretty low key.

And for those of you who say St. John’s @ MSG: that’s a home game.

Whenever fans can return to games, I plan on making it out to one of the NBE cities, preferably Hinkle first.

Ah the 2012 team who pulled the infamous NJ o-for losing to SHU and RU

 

[HuskyHawk]

I went to almost every game @PC before the Big East - AAC split. Always wore my UConn stuff. No issues. Looking forward to those games again.

I watched the infamous UConn @ Kansas game at Kemper Arena in KC (wish it had been at AFH). Wore my UConn stuff even though I had graduated from KU law school the year before. I took some grief from friends after that game.

 

[TWG236]

Wife, our best friends and I traveled to Philadelphia to watch both the men's and women's games against Villanova. Men played in the afternoon and were expected to lose, went to overtime when Anderson hit a three as time expired. They won. UCONN fans went crazy. Woman were #1 and played in the evening. They were expected to blow Villanova out of the gym. They lost. Villanova fans went crazy. Both UCONN teams went on to win National Championships. Great experience, as expected Villanova fans were very vocal in supporting their teams, but a great number of UCONN fan base at both games. Best atmosphere I ever experienced. Can't remember when both men and women traveled and played the same opponent on the same day. Wish it could happen more often.

 

[QDOG5]

ND
DePaul
Marquette
Illinois
My daughter goes to Cincy but the last 2 years the UConn-Cincy game was over winter break and my daughter did not want to return to campus early. Now I can take her to a Xavier game and we can both cheer for the Huskies. Btw, if you are at the NBE tourney and for some has reason have to choose between hanging with Marquette fans or ND fans choose the Marquette group every time. Also, I always wear UConn gear to a UConn game. I thought that was a given.

 

[bristol rises]

Been to many but one stands out. Was in Chicago for business and parlayed that into drive up to Milwaukee to see Marquette game on a Wed night during the 2008-09 season. It was an electric atmosphere in and around the arena. We were ranked #2 in country at time and Marquette was #10.

Game was an absolute track meet. AJ Price ended up scoring 36 points. Incredible performance by him. Marquette had some real good players at the time too.

The Marquette fans were very hospitable (like typical Midwesterners). The cherry on top of the evening was it was JC's 800th win.

 

[QDOG5]

I had the opposite experience. 2006 UConn came in #2 and Marquette spanked them. Steve Novak scored 41pts. We got hooted on hard all night.

 

[Guapo]

I can’t believe so many people have had “positive” experiences with PC fans.

They have always been the worst to encounter, in my experience, home or away.

They are a small and angry fanbase with a severe little brother complex.

Pissants.

 

[FatHank]

No excuse for losing to George Mason. That was the most embarrassing loss of the Calhoun era.

I was there. I can still see the Mason fans clapping in unison and chanting, Go Mason, Go. Big Baby had a dream day. That guy was on fire. I remember us with our despetation attempts toward the end of the game. The memories still haunt me and it took a good few plus years to stop the Mason cheering from echoing in my head.

 

[bertieboy]

How was the experience?

Did you wear the UConn cap and any other UConn clothing there?

Any jeers, taunts or profanity from the hometown fans directed at you or the group?

Were any arenas particularly hostile?

I have gone to BB and FB at SMU in Dallas. Ditto to Baylor in Waco, Texas and women's BB at UT Austin.

I went to the football game at Baylor in Waco with my high school aged son. Before agreeing to go he was reluctant. He said there's going to be a fight. No, I said, that only happens in high school. This is college and they don't do that kind of thing.

We parked a bit off campus behind a restaurant and we walked to the stadium, with all our Uconn gear on, through a Baylor tail gating area. One guy about 50 feet away looked at us long and hard. I returned his gaze and said, "Good luck." He responded good luck as well!

I have had no incidents. No one has ever hassled me. Everyone was always very nice. And at all the BB games there were always plenty of Uconn fans all dressed up in blue and white!

 

[SoFla Steve]

Aside from the games I mentioned earlier, I went to MSG for a St. John's game many years ago. I remember they were honoring Louie for something and everyone got a cardboard Indian headdress to wear (they were still the Redmen, obviously).

Spent the rest of the night in the Irish bars on 33rd St. Can't even remember if we won.

 

[Aaron1995]

UCONN vs. Michigan State. 2000. Year they won it all. Sports Illustrated had a story on the game. They had a picture of the crowd. Blurry but I was in the center looking fairly dismayed. (They crushed us).

 

[ColchVEGAS]

Every away game during the 2008-2009 season, minus maybe a couple due to those damn victory lap classes.

 

[Griggs]

I used to go almost every time we played Seton Hall at the Meadowlands. There used to be bus trips down there from all over CT. Those were the days when there was literally more UConn fans than Seton Hall fans in their building, and I'm pretty sure Dan Hurley made mention of that during his press conference when he got hired. Since that was the case, I wouldn't consider that really a "true" road game. The same goes for St John's games at MSG. Those were usually pro UConn crowds. The one game that stands out though was when we got killed in 2011 by STJ at MSG. That crowd was pretty hostile as I remember getting harassed by a couple drunk kids for wearing my UConn shirt.

Went on many bus trips to Seton Hall, St. John's, BC and Providence. Always treated with respect by opposition fans. Many MSG games Uconn fans outnumbered SJ fans.Hope those bus trips return.

 

[thatguyed]

Charleston tournament was awesome

 

[jdb50]

Was at Providence sitting behind the basket and saw Bruce Kuczenski dominate the game. Went to Holy Cross ( such a small venue) and saw the Huskies suck late in Perno's career.

 

[Baltic]

How was the experience?

Did you wear the UConn cap and any other UConn clothing there?

Any jeers, taunts or profanity from the hometown fans directed at you or the group?

Were any arenas particularly hostile?

Interesting post, got me to thinking. Opposing fans have been generally accommodating except for a couple of instances. I have found If you act reasonably so would the competition.

UMass - both old alumni field and new facility. Old Field House had a dirt floor around it. The worst Fans, particularly in the Kimball/ Balasuknia era and when Calipari was in charge.
URI - Some great rivalry games in the day.
UNH
BCU
Holy Cross
Providence
Seton Hall
St. Johns - Both Alumni Hall and MSG
Syracuse - Both old Field House and Carrier Dome (some bad snow events included)
Villanova - Alumni Field House and both NBA facilities
Georgetown
BU
Miami
ECU
UNC
Indiana
Arizona

Always wore my UConn gear.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I can’t believe so many people have had “positive” experiences with PC fans.

They have always been the worst to encounter, in my experience, home or away.

They are a small and angry fanbase with a severe little brother complex.

Pissants.

Syracuse fans are by far the worst. In their mind they're Duke but in reality they're Wake Forest with snow.

 

[Matt (Chicago)]

Been fortunate to see a fair amount of away games. I'll just put our record vs each team when I've been there on the road. I would say Cuse fans were the worst easily. Most of the time the home team fans are fun and it's some good spirited back and forth banter, nothing more.

Cuse (1-2)

Depaul (3-0)

Marquette (1-0)

Notre Dame (2-1) one of these wins was when we ended their very long home win streak, and after the game Jeff Adrien said "this is our gym now"

Nova (0-1)

SMU (0-1)

 

[Zissou]

My wife and I went to the ( brand new?) DuPont Pavilion in February of 1989 to see Cliffy and Phil play against Villanova. Cliff was a beast and Chris Smith played really well in regulation. We sat in the very back row with a cluster of about 15 UConn fans who we didn't know. We were all pretty obnoxious because we led for the vast majority of the game. I forget exactly what caused the collapse, we wound up losing in overtime and really heard it from the fans sitting around us. We deserved everything we got because we were overdoing it during the slst few minutes of regulation.

I was sitting right in front of you. North Stands behind the basket.

 

[Zissou]

I can’t believe so many people have had “positive” experiences with PC fans.

They have always been the worst to encounter, in my experience, home or away.

They are a small and angry fanbase with a severe little brother complex.

Pissants.

(Maybe it’s not them)

 

[Dogdeacon]

I went to the UConn vs West Virginia first round NIT game in 1988. Drove down (Pennsylvania turnpike is endless monotony). We must have gotten tickets thru UConn as we were sitting in the first row, roughly 24 UConn fans were in the first two rows, I think half were families of players. It was St. Patrick's Day and we'd pre-gamed extensively, then my girlfriend kicked her Jack & Coke onto the floor (we'd smuggled a couple nips into the arena) somehow the arena folks cleaned it up and didn't eject us (I even kept my drink?!). Yelled and cheered hard for 40 minutes. I think it might have been Tate that hit a shot to ensure OT, WVU had NCAA aspirations, the arena was probably 65% full and it was not a raucous crowd. In OT we YELLED ourselves hoarse leading chants for that group of 24 faithful. To this day I am very certain that we helped instill the will that was necessary to gut out that win. After the buzzer sounded a player came over and said something to the effect of; "you guys were awesome, thanks so much for cheering & your support it really helped us" I can't remember who that player was, but every time I tell this story from now on that player will be Cliff Robinson.

 

[60'sfan]

I remember being absolutely miserable at the UConn - Pepperdine game in Malibu in 2005 because that was the night the California bar exam results came out and I couldn’t check to see if I passed until I got home.

I believe that was the first game of the Craig Austrie era and they were on their way to Maui. Also a little white dude named Gerrity who I think ended up transferring to USC ended up having a pretty nice game and making the game less enjoyable than it should have been. Fans were fine though. Like being in a high school gym.

Wow! I was at that game too. I drove up from San Diego with a friend. It was a closer game than it should have been. As I recall Rudy Gay was on that team. Small world.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Seton Hall a few times. Come to think of it, those Jersey boys were a bit jerky.

Also at Syracuse, where I was fine. Ignored.

As an undergrad, I was at the infamous UConn-BU snow game, where UConn got stuck in snow on the highway, and Mike Jarvis insisted the game be played anyway after a long delay.

I was an undergrad then too, watched that game at Hooligans and we were there wayyyy too long drinking due to the delay!

 

[FriarJ]

I can’t believe so many people have had “positive” experiences with PC fans.

They have always been the worst to encounter, in my experience, home or away.

They are a small and angry fanbase with a severe little brother complex.

Pissants.

Did you ever consider that maybe it’s you?

 

[Guapo]

Did you ever consider that maybe it’s you?

it’s been considered, and the results have come back:

it is you. A small and nasty fanbase that’ll have to get used to playing second fiddle yet again (shouldn’t be hard though, y’all have a lot of practice at that)