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Stay warm everyone.
Students Camping Out
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ColchVEGAS
Still buckin like five, deuce, four, trey.
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Like the good ol' days.
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Never did it myself. Would often go first thing the morning of the game and still freeze my ass off, but never had a tent, and none of my friends cared enough about the team to camp with me. I’m sure it’s a great time.
Layer up and bring the fireball
Layer up and bring the fireball
Dutch Boyd
A fine place to live
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Always fun. Camped out for the big UConn vs Nova game in 96. Ray against Kerry that got delayed one day because of a snow storm.
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They sent everyone home.
Dutch Boyd
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Indeed.
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Never camped out but we arrived at 2pm to wait outside for the Florida game in 2013. Ended up 3rd row. Great decision
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Camping out for the Arizona game in 2000 might have been the best experience of my entire time at UConn. It was our freshman year and the first big game as students.
+ We got there 2-3 days before the game and still would not have been in the first few rows, but Jim Calhoun invited everyone in to watch shootaround the morning of the game and in the reshuffling coming back in we somehow ended up in the front of the line.
+ My actual mattress from my dorm bed got lost in using it for all of the camping out madness and somehow appeared in our Belden hallway like a week later, still to this day do not know where it went or how it got back.
+ I brought in a sign that said “Bill Walton got me these seats” (look up Richard Jefferson, Bill Walton suspension) that was featured on the broadcast and that the Daily Campus called out as the best sign the following Monday.
+ My roommates next to me ended up in a UConn commercial doing the U-C-O-N-N chant during the game.
+ With about 2 minutes left in the game, there was buzz in the student section about storming the court. During the last timeout, the yellow Event Staff jacket security guy facing me leaned over and said, “They don’t pay me enough to stop you guys, fake left and run straight on the court.”
+ As soon as the buzzer sounded after T-Rob’s game-winner, I was the first student on the court and had no idea what to do so I saw Albert Mouring, ran over and gave him a hug/high five.
+ We got there 2-3 days before the game and still would not have been in the first few rows, but Jim Calhoun invited everyone in to watch shootaround the morning of the game and in the reshuffling coming back in we somehow ended up in the front of the line.
+ My actual mattress from my dorm bed got lost in using it for all of the camping out madness and somehow appeared in our Belden hallway like a week later, still to this day do not know where it went or how it got back.
+ I brought in a sign that said “Bill Walton got me these seats” (look up Richard Jefferson, Bill Walton suspension) that was featured on the broadcast and that the Daily Campus called out as the best sign the following Monday.
+ My roommates next to me ended up in a UConn commercial doing the U-C-O-N-N chant during the game.
+ With about 2 minutes left in the game, there was buzz in the student section about storming the court. During the last timeout, the yellow Event Staff jacket security guy facing me leaned over and said, “They don’t pay me enough to stop you guys, fake left and run straight on the court.”
+ As soon as the buzzer sounded after T-Rob’s game-winner, I was the first student on the court and had no idea what to do so I saw Albert Mouring, ran over and gave him a hug/high five.
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ColchVEGAS
Still buckin like five, deuce, four, trey.
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There were times when Calhoun had pizzas delivered to the students camping out. Legend.
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I didn't camp out for the Michigan State game in 98/99. I got there super early the next day, and JC had bought like 40 pizzas for the campers for dinner.
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Camped out for the AZ game as well. I remember gampel that day, those last couple minutes the comeback when it looked like we were dead. The building was rocking the o ly thing that stopped the energy was waiting for the refs call on the Robertson drive. Seemed like it took 10 minutes before the call and the place exploded again.
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