LOUDEST crowd ever...

[DaddyChoc]

the fans almost blew the roof off the XL Center!

 

[Tenspro2002]

Usually one of the worst home courts in the BE, they really came alive and sparked that rally.

 

[UCweCONN]

Drummond is the key. He brings excitement like no other player on the team. Boatright's dunk right after Drummond's dunk was sick as well.

 

[husky711]

Funny... halfway through the game or so I was thinking how the crowd seemed pretty dead for a solid Big East matchup, then thought "well it is winter break so a lot of out of state students with tix aren't there, etc." Then, not long after, we started to rally and the crowd blew the roof off to help fuel us! Thank God for that crowd tonight... it really is the 6th man many times. Without the crowd who knows if the team would've been able to get as fired up & rally the way they did. I'd like to think they would've finished the game out just as hard... but it's much harder to rally like that on the opponent's home court when the crowd is blowing the roof off for the other team and not you.

 

[HuskyNan]

Drummond is the key. He brings excitement like no other player on the team. Boatright's dunk right after Drummond's dunk was sick as well.

It was Lamb's dunk off off Napier's alley-oop that woke the crowd up.

 

[guyergym]

Calhoun agrees:

https://twitter.com/#!/DaveBorges/status/156569924549091328

 

[DaddyChoc]

Funny... halfway through the game or so I was thinking how the crowd seemed pretty dead for a solid Big East matchup, then thought "well it is winter break so a lot of out of state students with tix aren't there, etc." Then, not long after, we started to rally and the crowd blew the roof off to help fuel us! Thank God for that crowd tonight... it really is the 6th man many times. Without the crowd who knows if the team would've been able to get as fired up & rally the way they did. I'd like to think they would've finished the game out just as hard... but it's much harder to rally like that on the opponent's home court when the crowd is blowing the roof off for the other team and not you.

I was surprised to see sooooo many students

 

[roxyharper]

no doubt, I thought I was watching a game at Cameron Indoor

 

[Waquoit]

It was Lamb's dunk off off Napier's alley-oop that woke the crowd up.

Stop it. The crowd was never asleep. They were ready to go all night. Once the team stopped following up a good play with a brain fart the crowd took over.

 

[UChusky916]

I was there in attendance. Though I graduated in 2010, my ID still gets me in and I know enough underclassmen to buy student tix from. I walked in and was very surprised at how many students were actually there since they were still on Winter break.

The crowd was waiting the whole game to get into it. I know I was. I think there was a lot of pent-up frustration after the first half and all of the turnovers and missed opportunities. Once things started to go right, it was a welcome sight, and the crowd helped the kids make the run. But make no mistake, it was the kids that did the job in the end. They are a young bunch, with little leadership. But they are talented. Sometimes they just need that spark and the talent shows through. Cutting down on turnovers helped too

 

[gwhuskyfan]

Being up towards the top the atmosphere and noise was unbelievable. I have never heard it so loud in the XL Center. Hope it stays like that the rest of the season

 

[husky711]

I was surprised to see sooooo many students

I was watching the TV on like a 13" screen... didn't get to my HDTV downstairs in time before the females decided to watch a movie. Not to mention I had to pause the game at the beginning for a short while and I fast forwarded through pretty much all non-game time. So my input on the crowd is really pretty worthless aside from the noise level I was hearing primarily in the first half.. and like I said they blew the roof off when it came down to it.

The lack of noise could even possibly be blamed on the TV as well, plus my pure frustration at certain points in the game probably wanting me to throw some blame at the crowd. Bottom line... they came alive when it mattered and had a huuuge impact on the outcome of the game. It was nice to see especially during winter break when attendance hasn't been so great for certain games in past years.

 

[Burt]

The last time I heard it that loud was 2 years ago at the WV game when Kemba sealed the game with a steal and dunk. Believe it was an 81-73 win. Game was just like this one, but the XL was thunderously loud.. I think Katz even mentioned something about the noise in a follow-up as well

 

[Ts5034]

For a civic center crowd, that was VERY impressive. It seemed to me that even throughout the game when Uconn could not break through, the crowd was just waiting to fire up. During the 2nd half run it finally came alive

 

[Rico444]

Just got home from the game...the atmosphere was unbelievable. Best crowd I've ever been a part of, and that includes Villanova and ND last year in Gampel (and this beats the west virginia crowd from 2 years ago...I was at that one, too)

 

[Ts5034]

By the way as loud as it was tonight, it didnt even come close to the Texas game at Gampel. Just wanted to add that because it goes to show how crazy that crowd was.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

Just got off the phone with my father who has season tickets. He can't even talk he lost his voice yelling so hard! LOL ROTFLAO

 

[ConnHuskBask]

By the way as loud as it was tonight, it didnt even come close to the Texas game at Gampel. Just wanted to add that because it goes to show how crazy that crowd was.

I've only been going to games for 7 years, but that Texas game and Villanova in 2006 were the loudest crowds I've ever been a part of.

A couple of those Big Red cheers tonight were thunderous though! Gotta love how awesome Big Red's chant is, and how much the cheer squad chant sucks. (sorry I know I always mention that, but I can't resist!)

 

[Waquoit]

Gotta love how awesome Big Red's chant is, and how much the cheer squad chant sucks. (sorry I know I always mention that, but I can't resist!)

No apology necessary. If it's not Big Red, no one cares. They ought to retire it and throw out more T-shirts.

 

[nadav]

Usually one of the worst home courts in the BE, they really came alive and sparked that rally.

Dude, at its worst the XL is in the top half of the league.

 

[DaddyChoc]

No apology necessary. If it's not Big Red, no one cares. They ought to retire it and throw out more T-shirts.

I think the BIG LETTERS just make us seem like kids... "come on kiddies lets get it right this time"

 

[UCHuskies08]

Everyone was on their feet for the last 4-5 minutes as well, that almost never happens

 

[DieHardHusky]

Can I get any thoughts or reaction on the "Braveheart" war paint I had going tonight in the front row if anyone saw it at all?

As far as the crowd level goes, it was unbelievable, I couldn't tell exactly how loud it was because myself and the students around me were just yelling at the top of our lungs.

 

[Huskies320]

It was good, but wasn't better than '09 Pitt

 

[HuskyV]

Kansas 1997