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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 3662918, member: 1026"] 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. [/QUOTE]