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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 5048654, member: 974"] [B]The first UConn basketball game at the Hartford Civic Center on January 2nd 1975. [/B]This was a big event. Suddenly UConn would playing in front of a crowds more than double the old field house. It is when the university took it's first step to being a school that the whole state supported. UConn basketball became an event drawing sellouts and increased media coverage. It is probably the main reason that the Big East invited UConn to be part of the conference -- they never would have been asked if they were still playing in the old field house. [B]Joining the Big East is probably the next most important iconic moment in basketball at the university.[/B] It's only second because it doesn't happen without the Civic Center. [/QUOTE]