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NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions - Again!
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This is a picture of the late Norman Bailey, who played for the men’s team and recently passed. I thought I would add it here because it shows what I was trying to explain about how densely people were packed in in the old Field House.I became a UConn fan when I was a student there. I’ve posted about it a bunch of times, but, man, the old Field House rocked. People would file in and squeeze into the bleachers, then, when the seats were filled, people would fill in the aisles. When the stands were completely filled, people would sit on the floor in front of them one or two deep. Then every crevice in the building would get filled with people standing. As I’ve talked about how many occasions, it would get so loud that the dust would shake down from the rafters, and create a cloud around the lights at the top of the arena. It was an absolutely insane atmosphere.
(And, yeah, Bailey had some hops didn’t he?)