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Students Camping Out

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
 
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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.
 
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There were times when Calhoun had pizzas delivered to the students camping out. Legend.
 
ColchVEGAS said:
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.
 
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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dvegas said:
Only thing we camped out for at UConn in the 1980's were Grateful Dead tickets @ the HCC outside the Jorgenson Ticketmaster!
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Now that's worth camping out for!!!!👍✌️🤟
 
Not overnight but showed up at the crack of dawn for the first game at Gampel.
 
No camp out either, but at Gampel very early in the morning in 1995 for Syracuse's first visit. Environment that day was electric!
 
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About five minutes ago....
 
Camped out for college gameday & the UConn-Nova Shabazz buzzer-beater game. Thankfully I was with a group of guys who rotated responsibilities so we could go to the dorm and drink some more soda.
 
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blkknight1 said:
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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Great game. The crowd was really into it. Loren Woods did block the Robertson shot cleanly although it was called goal tending. We couldn’t figure out that that was what the refs were discussing as it seemed clean live too. A great win but not the greatest way to seal it on that call but you just remind yourself that a bad call has/will cost you elsewhere.
 
Love to see it. There were some lean years there for student support.

I camped out twice during my time there in the 2010s.

First, for Texas in 2014, it was a horrible experience. Temps below freezing, didn’t have any booze (we were under 21), and then of course we lost on a heartbreaker.

Complete 180 for Ohio State in 2015. It was in the 50s, we had enough liquor to kill a small village, and one of our friends even grilled up some burgers. Then, we blitzed OSU and won by 20.
 
87Xfer said:
Not overnight but showed up at the crack of dawn for the first game at Gampel.
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Same! It was crazy playing at the Field House then two days later we are playing at Gampel. That season played out like a Hollywood movie script complete with a tragic ending.
 
Article in the New Haven Register interviewing the students who are sleeping out.

“I got here at 11 p.m. (Monday night), but my friend got here at 10,” Dubon said. “I am going to sleep over tonight. Me and my roommate (Aidan McMahon from Stamford) will sleep here together. It is kind of a cool experience to say that you slept outside for this big game.

“It’s the biggest game in Gampel for as long as I can remember. Games like this don’t come around that often, so you have to be closer to the action and really get into the game. Hopefully we will get the front row, but as close as possible, that’s the goal.”


The RuffRuff Alternate Access™:

UConn students camped outside Gampel Pavilion days before Top 5 game: 'You do it for the memories​

 
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Kemba Time said:
+ 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.”
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Incredible from this guy lol.
 
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