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Message: [QUOTE="Kemba Time, post: 4853513, member: 2962"] I love this thread. My college hoops memories start as far back as as I could possibly remember, when my Dad used to sit me on his lap and tell stories about seeing Cazzie Russell’s Michigan teams and Bill Bradley’s Princeton squads take on St. John’s and the other NYC powers in a way that made me want to get to The Garden like other kids dream of Disney World or the North Pole or whatever normal kids dream about. My first trip was a doubleheader featuring Speedy Claxton’s Hofstra team, St. John’s, Rutgers and Fordham and it was magical to me. Almost 40 years later, I still get goose bumps every time the train hits The City on my way to MSG. One of my favorite early college hoops memories: In first grade, we had to do a daily journal. The day after the 1989 title game, my entry was about how Glen Rice was unstoppable and Ramuel Robinson was amazing. Turns out nobody else in my class weighed in on Michigan’s win over Seton Hall that morning. I grew up near Colorado State, so we went to as many WAC and later Mountain West games as possible and always sat behind the visitor’s bench to see Majerus, Keith Van Horn, Tark, Tim Hardaway and the like up close. Such an underrated conference. Because of my parents NY roots, I was a Big East fan growing up in a Big 8/12 world. My first UConn memory was pretending I was Chris Smith splitting the defense on the hoop in my living room with a nerf ball I got from a local pizza place (there are no message board threads about best Northern Colorado pizza). Eight or nine years later, my Dad and I saw UConn in person for the first time when the Huskies opened the ‘99 tourney in Denver. We fell in love with the way a team that could score like the did exerted itself on defense — and UConn rocketed up my college list and a couple years later I was a freshman in Storrs. [/QUOTE]

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