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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2629229, member: 6911"] California is as far from Connecticut as London is from us. Chicago is a thousand miles away. So, yes, they are not the environs of Storrs. A kid has a two-hour plane flight to get from Chicagoland to Connecticut. And a lot of kids balk at going that far from home to play basketball and attend college. So I would say that to travel from the midwest or California (or as I did going from Washington, D.C. to California for college) to Connecticut is a big undertaking and takes one a long way from family, friends, and to unfamiliar climates and lands. So I would say that a kid coming from Australia, whose family were originally from Nigeria, would find kindred sportiest on this UConn team, what with kids with African relatives, a kid from Canada, and others from across the United States. Not as if it's a team in the northwest with everyone from Washington or Oregon. [/QUOTE]