UConn Men Come Under The Eyes Of NBA Scouts, Too

[James]

Borges vs Nolan lmao just saw Nolan tweet this a while back #neverforgetnolan

 

[David 76]

Ouch!

I heard he was changing his number. If it is now 69 this is a very different tweet.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

And lets face it, there are a whole lot more Kentucky fans than UCONN fans. It's a religion down there. UK BB is the "UT/AL football" of Kentucky. Not so up here.

We may not be UK !or UofA,or Nebraska but their is a lot of interest in the BB .
If fan interest in football equalled basketbal we would be in a better CR position. Of course tradition and success have something to do with it.

 

[Gurleyman]

And lets face it, there are a whole lot more Kentucky fans than UCONN fans. It's a religion down there. UK BB is the "UT/AL football" of Kentucky. Not so up here.

It changed at some point and became downgraded. Huskymania was a real thing and not a marketing ploy to sell tshirts. Fans lined the streets and overpasses to wave to the team bus after the NIT and the Dream Season loss. Everything sold out. Bethune-Cookman at the HCC? Attendance would be 16,124. St. John's under Jarvis changed their ticket policy so that MSG wouldn't be overrun by UConn fans.

Somewhere in between the second title, laptop gate, a couple bad years after laptop gate, and jacking up ticket prices to be unaffordable for regular fans, there hasn't been as much mania in the last 10 years. Michigan State at MSG was a nice throwback to what we used to have regularly.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

It absolutely was a real thing and our roster of beat writers (due to its size compared to other BE schools in the infancy of the BE) called it The Horde. By the early 1990's many national sportswriters compared our basketball following to that of Nebraska football (where if a backup lineman had an ingrown toenail during spring practice the entire state would find out).