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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 5291871, member: 10"] In 1989 I started graduate school at Michigan. I told someone I was a UConn basketball fan and they said, "Yukon? Is that in Alaska?" And they were being serious. Then the Dream Season happened. Then they made the NCAA Tournament the season after that and there was momentum. But it probably took another few seasons to get things rolling where people everywhere knew what UConn was. So you're right, UConn wasn't an unknown to some people during the entire decade. I probably should have said 1980s and it would have made more sense. But there's nobody now that would perceive UConn as a "mid-major" as the post I was replying to said. That's just absolutely ridiculous. [/QUOTE]