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Get a Job said:
I have to say I was extremely disappointed by the crowd tonight. Student section was decent, but the rest of the crowd, for the most part, was crickets. I guess we are just going to have to deal with this until we get closer to where we want to be, but it is frustrating in the mean time.
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Are you sure you went to Gampel for the game? I don’t even remember the last time I went to a game that was that loud at Gampel/XL. Last time I heard a crowd so loud for a UConn game was Elite Eight 2014.
 
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I guess I should clarify the standard by which I made my criticism. I was at almost every home game from '03-'04 to '09-'10. Most conference games and most major conference OOC games were earth shaking. The whole game, not just when we were on a run. Tonight, the crowd had its moments, but the majority of the game was quiet. Most non-students sat 90+ percent of the game.

Don't get me wrong. This crowd was the best I've seen in a while. But it was nothing compared to the good old days.
 
UConn_Top_Dog said:
I was there and the crowd was loud. Idk what it sounded like in tv though. I know I was fired up and everyone around me was in section 220.
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I was in 210, and that section was pretty good actually. The arena as a whole (minus the student section) was quite lackluster for most of the game though. But I do acknowledge that when we got loud, we got really loud.
 
Crowd was great. Its hard to compare crowds from games years apart but it was everything you'd expect and hope for for a Gampel game against a top 25 team
 
zls44 said:
Why is it so hard to just wear a white shirt? 352 schools can pull this off, UConn fans get all upset about it.

Just wear white. It isnt hard. Good lord.
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I bought a new shirt on sale at Target yesterday. Not hard at all
 
I was at a bar, in Florida, with no volume on the tv because the Dolphins game was on so I could not hear the crowd.

I thought it was cool that Seth Greenbeeg was in the crowd and kids looked into the game and had a good bit of enthusiasm. I was happy to see white from courtside to the roof in the student section and mostly a full arena. I thought this place would have zero empty seats but whatever.

The student section looked good without audio and the team looked fired up for sure. All in all for me it was a great game to watch and congrats to our boys and crowd for making it happen.

Let's go Huskies!
 
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FatHank said:
I was at a bar, in Florida, with no volume on the tv because the Dolphins game was on so I could not hear the crowd.

I thought it was cool that Seth Greenbeeg was in the crowd and kids looked into the game and had a good bit of enthusiasm. I was happy to see white from courtside to the roof in the student section and mostly a full arena. I thought this place would have zero empty seats but whatever.

The student section looked good without audio and the team looked fired up for sure. All in all for me it was a great game to watch and congrats to our boys and crowd for making it happen.

Let's go Huskies!
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huskymedic said:
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The Guy Fieri fat head was a pleasure to see in the stands. The camera zoom I saw of Seth was not as cool as that pic. I remember thinking, damn, Seth is having some serious fun right now!
 
Get a Job said:
I have to say I was extremely disappointed by the crowd tonight. Student section was decent, but the rest of the crowd, for the most part, was crickets. I guess we are just going to have to deal with this until we get closer to where we want to be, but it is frustrating in the mean time.
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I was there and I’m confused by this. The crowd hit 90 decibels on 3 different occasions tonight. I know this because the Apple Watch alerts you when it’s too loud for an extended period of time. To put that in context, I saw TOOL at the TD Garden on Thursday. It was the loudest show I’ve ever seen, it only hit 95 decibels and my insides were shaking. Maybe it wasn’t the loudest Gampel crowd ever but I’ll take that any day. Especially coming off a dreadful loss.
 
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FatHank said:
The Guy Fieri fat head was a pleasure to see in the stands. The camera zoom I saw of Seth was not as cool as that pic. I remember thinking, damn, Seth is having some serious fun right now!
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Saw Karl and Seth in the Student Union food court at about 1pm. Had a quick chat with them pretty cool.
 
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UConnMike04 said:
I’m wearing grey, was at Teds last few hours. Don’t need white to show my UConn pride!
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haha I was at Teds also. Wearing grey...it’s whatever.
zls44 said:
Why is it so hard to just wear a white shirt? 352 schools can pull this off, UConn fans get all upset about it.

Just wear white. It isnt hard. Good lord.
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I have plenty of clothes that are white, but I don’t have much just white UConn gear. Usually when there are white outs by the school they give out white t-shirts, our athletic dept didn’t do that.
 
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zls44 said:
Congrats to @UConnMike04 on wearing grey to every game the rest of the season


I dont make the rules.
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Honestly walking around campus most people were wearing grey or blue. They handed out white towels and we grabbed some of them but a lot of the crowd wasn’t in white.
 
The Shot said:
I was there and I’m confused by this. The crowd hit 90 decibels on 3 different occasions tonight. I know this because the Apple Watch alerts you when it’s too loud for an extended period of time. To put that in context, I saw TOOL at the TD Garden on Thursday. It was the loudest show I’ve ever seen, it only hit 95 decibels and my insides were shaking. Maybe it wasn’t the loudest Gampel crowd ever but I’ll take that any day. Especially coming off a dreadful loss.
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My beef is not with the volume or exuberance during the loud moments. Those were pretty good. It's in between those moments that I felt the crowd could have been more participatory. Except for the students, there was not very much noise on defense unless we were in the midst of a run.
 
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Husk04ies said:
I just get aggravated when I'm screaming, cheering, generally coming unhinged, no matter who we play and people turn around and give me a look like I'm insane. Uhhhhh I'm being a fan and you're at a basketball game. Happens to me at XL and Gampel.
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I get told to sit down after standing and cheering after a good play boggles my mind why are people there if they don’t get into the game
 
FatHank said:
I was at a bar, in Florida, with no volume on the tv because the Dolphins game was on so I could not hear the crowd.

I thought it was cool that Seth Greenbeeg was in the crowd and kids looked into the game and had a good bit of enthusiasm. I was happy to see white from courtside to the roof in the student section and mostly a full arena. I thought this place would have zero empty seats but whatever.

The student section looked good without audio and the team looked fired up for sure. All in all for me it was a great game to watch and congrats to our boys and crowd for making it happen.

Let's go Huskies!
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Crowd sounded good on tv, but there was one hilarious moment when they checked in with Greenberg in the crowd. It was probably halfway through the 2nd half and Greenberg asked the students around him "what are you guys going to do to get your huskies back into this game?" and the students obviously didn't get the cue to cheer so there was crickets. Then he asked again and they figured it out, but it was a funny awkward moment
 
UConnMike04 said:
Not at all, most non students weren’t wearing white.
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Not shocked. Our fan base, even the students, has always generally sucked with this kind of thing unless a free shirt is shoved into their seat

Btw, what section were you in today?
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My apartment in San Diego

lol so you’re one of those
 
UConnMike04 said:
Not at all, most non students weren’t wearing white. Btw, what section were you in today?
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Not true, I was actually really surprised that most people were wearing white. The school gave less then a week notice and only online yet I’d say a good 70% had on white. Really good showing from the fans.
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DSquiz said:
Not true, I was actually really surprised that most people were wearing white. The school gave less then a week notice and only online yet I’d say a good 70% had on white. Really good showing from the fans.
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It was a good showing, but most people went to the co-op to buy something white to wear as a lot of people didn’t know about it (I saw it in an email while driving up to campus).
 
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