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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3111930, member: 5798"] [SIZE=4][B]Fans share their stories of the legendary program - [/B][/SIZE] Kathleen Crewdson was supposed to be getting a massage. That was how she had planned it, anyway. Then UConn announced a send-off celebration for its Final Four-bound Huskies women’s basketball team at noon Tuesday, leaving Crewdson to tear up her schedule. Now she and her wife Alice O’Donovan were standing in 45-degree cold outside Gampel Pavilion waiting for Napheesa Collier, Katie Lou Samuelson and the rest of the UConn team to emerge from the building. “The girls deserve the attention,” said Crewdson, who received Final Four tickets for her recent 70th birthday. “Yes it’s year No. 12 [of consecutive Final Four appearances], but it’s still a big deal every year.” Crewdson and O’Donovan were two of several hundred fans gathered Tuesday to cheer on the Huskies as they embark for Tampa. They’re also two of the tens of thousands of Connecticut residents who have grown to adore Geno Auriemma’s program over its 25-run of women’s hoops dominance. [URL='https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-womens-basketball-connecticut-20190402-20190403-4ytiv7sq7nckjjcc4fcfjho2p4-story.html'][Article][/URL] [/QUOTE]