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Who on here is a UConn Alum? And who is not? I am.

I'm an alumnus of the University of Illinois. I've lived in Connecticut since 1974.
 
I am not. My daughter is a Syracuse grad. Go Orange (Men). The only time I’m not in Cuses corner is when Uconn women are playing. I’m a former HS Girls coach and I love Uconn womens basketball!
 
Rochester New York born and raised graduated locally from Nazareth. Always felt a pull to Uconn instead of Syracuse. Found out last year my long lost family came from Connecticut and went to Uconn. Guess it's in my blood!
 
I am not an alum. I first became a fan of sorts in 1995 when Lobo and Co. beat the hated Lady Vols. I hated them before I was aware of UConn's team.

Didn't really follow UConn much after that, though. Couldn't really. Didn't know about this board. I was limited to what was on ESPN. Then a few years ago, I guess because of the SNY thing, I suddenly was able to watch a lot of games, and my interest really blossomed.
 
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I graduated Northeastern in 1969, 3 years before a guy named Jim Calhoun was named their head coach. As I had many friends attending UConn, there were many a weekend that I took the Mass Pike down to Storrs for either football or basketball games. In 1980 my friends and I started buying seasons tix to men's basketball when UConn joined the Big East. When the 'points program' was put in place to determine your seat location it was less expensive to buy season tix to Women's Basketball, Football & Soccer than to make the donation for the same amount of points. At 1st I gave away a lot of the games but then started bringing my kids to the games. The rest is, as they say, history with a lot of funny stories in between.
 
NYC born and bred. Graduated from Hunter College here in NYC and attended NYU for my master's. I've always been a sports fanatic from the time I watched my father watching the Dodgers and of course later his beloved Mets. NY having so many sports teams at the time allowed for an incredible amount of sports viewing on free TV. Every Dodger game, every Yankee game, every (baseball and football) Giants game, every Ranger game, every major boxing match, every Knick game, and of course, playing baseball and football in HS while playing every city street sport imaginable. It was immersive. I loved and followed UConn since and during the '95 season. Sue Bird from Christ The King just cinched it.
 
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I was born and raised in Geno's old neighborhood in Northwest Phil Suburbs. I was transferred here 37 yrs ago and never moved back, liked the sailing too much, then I found UConn Women's Basketball
 
BA in Communications class of 85. Broadcast many women's(and men's games, both soccer teams, football and baseball) on WHUS. Women's games at the Field House prior to Geno(with Jean Balthaser) were a family and friends affairs. And we stunk. So I guess I have been following the women's team since 1981!
 
I became a fan in 1995,Veryolddog, I taught and coached in Albuquerque from 1964 to 1987.La Mesa Elem,Hayes Jr.High ,Sandia High, and Head Football Coach at Valley High in 1977(first Black Head Coach in Albuquerque).Perhaps we are familiar to each other.
 
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I graduated from UConn so long ago (1967) that not only were there few women’s teams, but men and women at best lived in the same quadrangle, let alone the same dorm. I lived in the Towers all 4 years which was the first quad with one building women. All other quads were all of one gender. Ultimately while I was there, West Campus and The Towers flipped a few dorms to make a few more integrated quads and McMahon opened with two towers one of each gender. I was on the committee that started the ball toward mixed dorms and eliminated women’s curfews (yes, Virginie there were curfews). Would have been interesting to know if they would have scheduled a women’s hoops game on a weeknight that ended after curfew (1o:30).

Men’s hoops was king. Until the Calhoun era, my 4 years were one of the best stretches in school history. Toby Kimball was a few years ahead of me and my classmates included Wes Bialosukina, Tom Penders and Bill Holowaty. Toby and Wes played pro ball.
 
I graduated with a BA in math in 1964 and an MBA in 1969. Was in the Navy in between. I have been a fan of Uconn basketball every since I attended my first game at the old field house. I thought that I would never seen a championship (I am also a Red Sox fan) until Geno finally pulled it off in 1995. Since then I have enjoyed many championships. I find that there are few teams that I can completely trust. Teams that are consistently good and always seem to find a way to win. The Uconn women are the best at that. I also trust the New England Patriots and the Ansonia High football teams.
 
cookie447 said:
St. Lawrence; grad degree from Syracuse. Have always felt welcomed as an ardent UCONN Huskies fan.....::):):)
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Cookie, I graduated from St. Lawrence as well, too many years ago! Grad degree from Fairleigh Dickinson in NJ, moved to CT and took some additional grad courses at UConn. Both daughters graduated from UConn, got great educations, and are doing very well for themselves now.
 
SMU grad. but Mrs. Z taught at UConn for a few years during the Shea, Sveta, Sue, Swin Diana era. We were very lucky; she was a llaison between the language dept. and athletics, so we usually got left-over student seats in the "parents area". Been hooked ever since.
 
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Not an alum, but grew up in Connecticut and started following sports at a young age around the time that Huskymania (both men's and women's) took hold in the early-mid 90's.
 
CANR 1980, then worked as a lab tech in Beach Hall before moving to VA in 1989. I, too, thank CPTV for televising all those games, used to have a friend in CT tape them on her VCR and mail them to me.
 
Zorro said:
SMU grad. but Mrs. Z taught at UConn for a few years during the Shea, Sveta, Sue, Swin Diana era. We were very lucky; she was a llaison between the language dept. and athletics, so we usually got left-over student seats in the "parents area". Been hooked ever since.
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Does OTP know that?
 
60'sfan said:
I graduated with a BA in math in 1964 and an MBA in 1969. Was in the Navy in between. I have been a fan of Uconn basketball every since I attended my first game at the old field house. I thought that I would never seen a championship (I am also a Red Sox fan) until Geno finally pulled it off in 1995. Since then I have enjoyed many championships. I find that there are few teams that I can completely trust. Teams that are consistently good and always seem to find a way to win. The Uconn women are the best at that. I also trust the New England Patriots and the Ansonia High football teams.
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Geez, you’re almost old enough to be my father. Ansonia and not a Giant fan? I know you and I pre-date the AFL or whatever that new League is.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Does OTP know that?
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Yup. In fact, he and I were there about the same time (the time of the "death penalty". He was studying business and I was in the grad school of econ.
 
cohenzone said:
Geez, you’re almost old enough to be my father. Ansonia and not a Giant fan? I know you and I pre-date the AFL or whatever that new League is.
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Just so you know, the best game I ever attended at the old field house was the Uconn - URI championship game. It was the famous slow-down game that Uconn had no chance to win and yet they did.
 
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60'sfan said:
Just so you know, the best game I ever attended at the old field house was the Uconn - URI championship game. It was the famous slow-down game that Uconn had no chance to win and yet they did.
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I listened to that one. The shot clock makes that tactic a thing of the past. That was, if my old memory serves, the Doug Melody show.

Most fun game in my time at school was UConn over Rutgers where it became Wes B. Vs. Bobby Lloyd. Two of the leading scorers in the country lived up to their billing, Wes 40-Lloyd 39.
 
I started college at Lehigh, got my B.A. from UConn (CLAS '72), Masters at Brown, Ph.D. studies at Penn.

I left Storrs when Geno was still in high school. I watched WCBB starting about 1990. I liked Kate Starbird, Dawn Staley, and Ticha Penicheiro. I thought Tennessee played bully ball from the dark ages. In 1995, as it turns out, my alma mater became the one team that could beat bully ball consistently. Having lived in the Philly area for 15 years, I could understand Geno. I was a total convert by the Final Four of 2000. I've been to Final Fours in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
 
Not a UConn alum. (A.B., Dartmouth 1969, M.B.A., Wharton Grad. 1978).
Lived in Norwalk in the 1980s and 90s, saw the Huskies on CPTV by accident
and have admired them ever since.
 
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Not an alum, but was born and raised a short distance from campus. My friends and I used to sneak into the leaky old fieldhouse to play basketball. My earliest memories of the basketball programs are when my uncle took us to men's games in the field house. Specifically, I remember a 1970 game against UMass and Dr. J. Dee Rowe was our Head Coach and Jim Valvano was an assistant. My classmate's older brother, Tony Budzinski played for UConn.

My son is a UConn grad and I still live in Connecticut.

I started following the UConn women's game probably in the late 80s and really drank the KoolAid during the '91 final four run.
 
I'm at 1988 UConn School of Pharmacy grad. ...I've lived in Connecticut my entire life (but hope to go to a warmer spot in the winters when I retire).
 
I grew up and spent most of my life in Westport and taught at UConn in Storrs back when a mid-winter walk across campus was a real test.
 
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