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Message: [QUOTE="ninety-nine, post: 4962455, member: 5497"] Born and raised in CT. My dad went to UConn in the 1950's, I went to UConn in the late 1980's and again in the early 1990's, still living in Connecticut... Husky through and through. Before I started at UConn, it almost seemed surreal that UConn was playing in the same conference as John Thompson's Hoyas, Carnessecca's Johnnies and plucky Villanova the giant-killer. They were on a different level than the local program playing in the Field House. How quickly that evolved once Calhoun got going!! I was on campus for the NIT title, going to the home games and celebrating at the Jungle when UConn won the crown. Then, in March of '90, I was with friends still living in the dorm the year after I graduated when UConn lost on Laettner's buzzer-beater. I remember our dejection walking around campus after the game, wondering if we'd ever come so close to a Final Four again. (They would.) [/QUOTE]