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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 4269421, member: 7548"] Maybe this is the article the OP was describing [URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/3220600/2022/03/31/uconn-star-paige-bueckers-final-four-homecoming-has-minneapolis-buzzing/?source=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter[/URL] In the far room of the restaurant, the floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall pull-down screen had been set up in expectation for an overflow of fans who’d want to see their hometown favorite. But the servers and staff still weren’t expecting [I]quite[/I] this level of turnout. The room with the mega-screen, which usually holds a handful of tables meant for six people, was jam-packed — shoulder-to-shoulder, standing room only even before the game began. From tipoff until the end of double overtime, the patrons rode the wave of energy from the game. As the fourth quarter hit and Bueckers began to get hot, the crowd grew louder and louder until finally, in overtime, it erupted into a pandemonium of celebration for Bueckers. Every time Bueckers touched the ball, the crowd roared, “Paige Buckets. Paige Buckets.” “You’re nervous, but I’d seen it 1,000 times over the course of her life,” says Brian Cosgriff, Bueckers’ former coach at Hopkins, who was at Mainstreet for the viewing. “She was going to take that thing over and win the game. She just was. And she did.” [/QUOTE]