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[QUOTE="kemba, post: 3432351, member: 1133"]
Probably mostly just the quality of the team and the schedule.  I'm sure the diehards who grew up as huge uconn fans and wanted to go to uconn because of basketball are still going.  But for the casuals or the kids who don't start supporting uconn basketball until being a student there hasn't been a lot to get excited about.  Used to be we'd have a winning team playing an awesome big east schedule and now its been a losing team playing maybe 2-3 home games worth getting semi excited for a year and losing most of the time.

So for a game like today, where the long time loyal fans saw this as a big game against a semi rival and a chance to show we're finally getting over the hump and beating good teams, and we're clearly working our way back to where we were, most of the students just see it as our mediocre basketball team playing an ok cincy team.

The national trends of attendance being down im sure plays some role, but when we are good again and in the big east we'll be fine attendance and atmospehre wise.
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