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Message: [QUOTE="Travelman6, post: 2390004, member: 7597"] I grew up in Connecticut. Of course eventually I would be exposed to Uconn. Who else did CT have at the time? Hartford for a few more years? Any way, it must have been 1994. My 4th grade teacher, otherwise an , decided to put the Rider/Uconn game on for the class to see, which was cool of him considering what I just said. It must have been a 2:00 game because it was after lunch and I remember getting on the bus and running home to watch the final minutes. I had loved the Bulls prior to that for a few years so I had that Bball pedigree. I loved to just shoot hoops for hours, even during those cold winter days (I think 1995 was especially brutal). I watched most of the games in 1995 and 1996. I digress. I think Florida came a little later that year and I realized I really liked the team when I got so pissed at those missed free throws and eventual overtime loss. I was probably only 10 at the time, first time I ever dropped the ¨F bomb¨ so to speak, going to bed so angry about the loss. From there, the interest just grew rapidly, heart breaking loss after heart breaking loss...Ole Miss, UCLA, UNC and so on. Until 1999 when they shocked the world. I was hooked by 1998 though, I would say. I watched every single game of that season. Even though I have only lived in CT for probably 1 year of the past 12 years, I watch them no matter where I am: I have lived in Maine , Washington DC, China, Colombia and now Guatemala in 11 of the past 12 years and I still follow them. I saw them win it all in Maine (2004), later back in CT (2011) for that 1 year stint, recovering from C@ncer (why is THAT word censored??) as well as that final four run when I was living in China when they lost to MSU in 2009 (ugh) and in Washington DC (2014). It seems I am somewhere else when they make the final four...Guatemala now? [/QUOTE]

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