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how's the fan turnout in Phoenix?

Phoenixhusky said:
Lots of Purdue fans because so many midwest transplants live here. The non affiliated fans I talked root for Uconn mostly.
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That helps. But this is also really big for them. For us, we were there last year. A bunch of UConn fans spent to get to Kansas because that was novel for us. Even in a different locations we’d be outnumbered. Plus Purdue is a bigger school, so are the other two.
 
I’m at a hotel walking distance to the arena. It’s been almost all Purdue for thee days now. Sprinkle in some NC State and I met my first two Bama fans last night. Haven’t seen another UConn fan at this hotel yet.
 
It's hard to tell fan turnouts until you are actually in the arena. When I went to the Empire Classic @ MSG, the train, city, etc. was FULL of UConn and I'm thinking to myself there's gonna be 90% UConn, 5% Texas, 4% Indiana, and 1% Louisville. In Grand Central, the place was packed w/ UConn gear and I only saw one or two Indiana fans. When I actually arrived to the arena, however, there was an insane amount of Indiana fans, which made no sense since they weren't even that great of a team nor was New York anywhere near them. I'd say it was 50% UConn, 40% Indiana, 8% Louisville (there was actually a way bigger Louisville turnout than I thought... when I was rooting for Texas to beat them I was actually against the crowd...) and 2% Texas.
 
Flight from Houston this morning has a lot of Bama and NC State fans (expected as a southern hub). Just two of us wearing UConn gear
 
Came in last night from JFK and had a good chunk of UCONN on my flight. Staying in Scottsdale and decent Purdue showing up this way
 
Big Ten schools are larger and generally have incredibly passionate fanbases. Add in that UConn fans had another team in the Final Four in a huge game elsewhere in the country and just probably paid a crapton last year, you can imagine they may not have as many.

But, again, I think people here tend to underestimate fanbases of schools like Purdue because we associate fanbases with winning. That's a very New England thing, I think (it's everywhere, but especially New England).

That said, if UConn wins this weekend, I think our fanbase takes another big step up as I suspect there will be a ton more national bandwagoners hopping aboard. Sort of like the Warriors, or like Duke in the late 80s-early 90s.
 
CTBasketball said:
There’s a girl in Alabama gear on my flight, easily a 9.5/10 but she’s probably dating her brother so that stinks for me.
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Was at the open practice yesterday. Would have to say Purdue is by a large amount the number 1 group here next was UConn
Didn't see very many Bama fans. Wasn't there for the NCST practice so don't know about their numbers.
 
AzHusky said:
Was at the open practice yesterday. Would have to say Purdue is by a large amount the number 1 group here next was UConn
Didn't see very many Bama fans. Wasn't there for the NCST practice so don't know about their numbers.
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I agree with the rankings as well for fan bases. Interested to see how it is today when I get there.
 
cmgresh36 said:
Came in last night from JFK and had a good chunk of UCONN on my flight. Staying in Scottsdale and decent Purdue showing up this way
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Im in Scottsdale as well and not many UConn fans in this part of the city. This place so spread out people are staying quite a distance from venue. I imagine there will be enough of us to make some noise. The starving fan bases definitely have made the trip.
 
tzznandrew said:
Big Ten schools are larger and generally have incredibly passionate fanbases. Add in that UConn fans had another team in the Final Four in a huge game elsewhere in the country and just probably paid a crapton last year, you can imagine they may not have as many.

But, again, I think people here tend to underestimate fanbases of schools like Purdue because we associate fanbases with winning. That's a very New England thing, I think (it's everywhere, but especially New England).

That said, if UConn wins this weekend, I think our fanbase takes another big step up as I suspect there will be a ton more national bandwagoners hopping aboard. Sort of like the Warriors, or like Duke in the late 80s-early 90s.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t UConn see a similar bump in the mid 90s to 2004 with “bandwagon” national fans? I was too young to really remember it, but I do remember reading over the years that UConn basketball was basically the coolest brand in the sport.
 
I'm a little surprised Purdue's alumni base is only ~double ours. The school currently has about two and a half as many undergradds as we do and historically it was a much larger gap. That they are from a state that takes the sport very seriously, compounded by the fact that they haven't been here since 1980, their turnout should be expected.

NC State also should do better than us on the facts that they are also a larger school (not the size of Purdue), also are from a state that tales the sport very seriously (NC St has a far stronger fan base than many realize) and that they havent been there since they won it all in 1983. That they are such a longshot may have kept some home in NC however.
 
Was at the Sheraton downtown bar last night to watch the women play and it was insane. Huge UConn contingent. U-C-O-N-N chants and everything. Lots of Purdue around town, followed by NC State. No Bama fans. The locals i have met all say they are rooting for UConn because they picked them in their pool. Then they say the Lady Huskies got a bad call last night.
 
Zero Bama fans, too many Purdue fans, NC State looks like they did they’re share bringing fans as well.

UConn probably in 3rd for showing.

Zero Bama fans. It’s kinda crazy.
 
WallStreetHusky said:
Was at the Sheraton downtown bar last night to watch the women play and it was insane. Huge UConn contingent. U-C-O-N-N chants and everything. Lots of Purdue around town, followed by NC State. No Bama fans. The locals i have met all say they are rooting for UConn because they picked them in their pool. Then they say the Lady Huskies got a bad call last night.
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Is the Sheraton the UConn hotel though?
 
Deepster said:
IF?!? Good lord. You people are morons.
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I'm a current UConn student and the plane tickets to Phoenix on such short notice are too much. Too bad the site is so far away and there aren't even any west coast teams in it
 
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