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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 3552528, member: 5436"] The pent up demand in Connecticut AND amongst the UConn fanbase is not just for sports in general, and didn't just start 2 months ago. It is specifically for exciting, competitive UConn basketball played by a team that has the chance to be elite again. And the "pent up demand" for this started about 4 years ago. All you have to do is read this board, and other forums where UConn fans post over the last few years for plenty of confirmation of this. Most of us have felt like we have been stuck in a barren, frozen, featureless tundra of a nightmare that we feared we might never be able to wake up from. The first glimmer of hope came with the hiring of Danny Hurley and subsequent construction of his top-level coaching staff. Since then most every step has been forward (not all, but most), culminating with our end-of-year winning streak and finishing off of our 2nd consecutive high-level recruiting class with the best big-man recruit (Sanogo) in a decade. It's been a hard, slow grind, for sure. And now, finally, we can see a light at the end of the tunnel that is not the headlamp of an oncomng train. The excitement level is higher than it has been since our last National Championship. Pent up demand? Oh yeah, we have that. In spades. Years of it, not just a couple of months. [/QUOTE]