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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 4887486, member: 7511"] My wife and I took in the game yesterday at the XL Center. We got there a little late, ended up parking on the 6th floor of the parking garage across the street and just got to our seats for the opening tip. As with any UConn game, the crowd was loud and enthusiastic, although the cheering seemed oddly “high pitched?” I learned why at halftime. Since it was Presidents Day, there was no school. At halftime, the Jumbotron listed 100s of youth league, middle school and high school girls’ basketball teams from all over CT that were in attendance. As for the game, it was a tale of two halves. In the 1st half, Jim Flannery’s Bluejays played outstanding basketball at both ends of the court and hit several tough shots against a UConn team that, quite frankly, looked tired, ending the half tied at 31. During half time Geno made a few adjustments, the Huskies came out with energy, locked down on defense, started to knock down shots, blowing out Creighton by 20 points. Since my wife and I knew we weren’t getting out of the parking garage anytime soon, we decided to sit back in our seats and relax after the game ended. We were probably in our seats for 30+ minutes. Most fans had left, players and coaches were in their locker rooms and media companies were packing up. But I observed something wonderful that I have now seen at just about every recent UConn game I attended in person. In one corner of the arena, down around courtside, there was a very large crowd of energetic fans, most of whom were young girls. In the middle of the crowd was Paige. She was patiently signing autographs, snapping selfies and conversing with hundreds of young fans. Paige had just played an exhausting 39 out of 40 minutes in the game, scoring 24 points, pulling down 6 rebounds with an assist, 2 steals and 3 blocks. But she still had enough energy after the game to interact with hundreds of fans, something she’s been doing ever since high school. When we measure basketball greatness, we tend to look at individual statistics, POY awards and championships. Paige has all of those. But if you ask me, the true measure of greatness lies not in what someone achieves for themselves, but in what they give to others. Many years from now, when those young girls at XL today are as old as some of us here today on the Boneyard, they’ll tell their children and grandchildren the story of the day they met Paige Bueckers, and then they will pull out their cherished selfie or autographed memorabilia to show everyone. [/QUOTE]

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