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Your First UConn Game In Person

1997 NIT game vs Nebraska. I was young but it was RIP’s freshman year and Rashamel Jones was the team’s best player at the time. My dad went to Filene’s to get tickets as they sold Ticketmaster seats. The 90s.

Edit: just looked this up (honestly hadn’t thought about it in years) but Tyronn Lue was Nebraska’s PG and I remember he was lighting it up in Gampel. Good guys won though
 
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cohenzone said:
I was there. Wasn’t Yale led by Bobby Trupin, a pretty good guard?
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Bobby was a very good guard, but he graduated the year before.

And, he was actually drafted by the New York Knicks at number 90, in the 12th round. Their roster for 1965-66, does not show his name.

Interesting life, shown in the 2014 article below. His family was involved in a sport camp at Kutscher's for many years.

www.theday.com

Bob Trupin: A Champion of Lifelong Learning

Once in a while, someone comes along who has clearly figured out why he or she was placed on this planet. Madison resident Bob Trupin is a great
www.theday.com
 
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UConn vs Tennessee in 2011 with my dad. 2010-2011 was the first season I ever watched and I fell in love instantly. I didn’t even like watching sports before that. My dad was a UConn super fan since the 80s now I know more than he does. We’ve been watching every game together for the last 10 years
 
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Beaner said:
UConn was on TV back then? No jest. That’s an earnest inquiry.
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Channel 8 would broadcast a few games. Dick Galliette would announce I believe. I remember seeing Bill Corley set a UConn single game scoring record and they had the UConn-URI slowdown game.
 
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1963 in the Fieldhouse against who I don't remember, but it was a win. That was when I became a Toby and Spider Dan Hesford fan. Spider threw himself all over the court causing multiple turnovers.
 
First game ever was at the Civic Center against Cal in the 1990 NCAA Tournament (does anyone know how we got to play our first 2 games at our home arena??? Seems like quite a conflict of interest). I was 8 years old.

Second game was at the old Brendan Byrne arena for the Sweet 16 game against Clemson :)

Third game was the Final 8 game against Duke :(

The following year my father became a donor and we had season tickets for 20+ years.
 
ColchVEGAS said:
The first I can remember was I think 96 or 97...Jacques Vaughn and Kansas at the XL Center.
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I was at this game too. It was 1997. Kansas was #1 in the country and Kirk King and Ricky Moore were suspended because of the plane ticket thing. We had the game tied with 3 minutes left before Kansas pulled away. I think we would have won if we had King and Moore that day.
 
December 1960 in the Payne-Whitney Gymnasium. Yale won 63-55. Growing up in New Haven, I was a Yale fan and an usher for the Yale home games in those days.
I was crushed when Yale lost in OT to Billy Packer’s Wake Forest team in the 62 NCAAs. Dave Schumacher missed 2FTs when 1 of 2 would have won in regulation.
eventually became a UConn student, and saw my first game in Storrs in December 1965, as UConn beat Yale 95-73.
 
1989 vs Cuse at the HCC sitting behind the basket on or around MLK Day. 68-62 win for the good guys. Cuse had Sherman Douglas, Derrick Coleman, Billy Owens, Stevie Thomson, Dave Johnson, Matt Roe. On paper we had no business competing with two All-Americans and Owens who was a McDonalds All-American recruit but I recall Uncle Cliffy, Phil Gamble and Tate George scoring about 60 of the 68 points to will us to a W before Huskymania began the following season. I was in middle school at the time and exhausted the next day going to school.
 
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ucp990411 said:
Feb 21,1967 vs New Hampshire. Bialasuknia scored 42. I was 11 and thought the Field House was the coolest place ever.
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Vuce said:
Yup! That was February of 1988. I was a freshman at UConn. Cuse was ranked #12 and Jeff King (RIP) threw the ball away and Stevie Thompson scored the game winner. That SUCKED!
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jdb50 said:
Channel 8 would broadcast a few games. Dick Galliette would announce I believe. I remember seeing Bill Corley set a UConn single game scoring record and they had the UConn-URI slowdown game.
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From looking at rosters,I'm pretty sure I went to my first game at the Field House during the 1962-63 season, but don't know more than that.

The following season, I started to go with my dad semi-regularly to school night games. This makes most sense because I can recall excitement surrounding new coach Fred Shabel and sophomore newcomer Spider Hesford's defensive energy in stealing and diving for loose balls which I'd seen a bit of the year before when we'd arrived early enough to see the end of a freshman game beforehand.

The comments quoted are for memorable games I saw live, with uncertainty as to whether the Rhode Island slowdown was seen on TV or in-person.

What a great thread on a great morning.
 
jdb50 said:
Channel 8 would broadcast a few games. Dick Galliette would announce I believe. I remember seeing Bill Corley set a UConn single game scoring record and they had the UConn-URI slowdown game.
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That Bill Corley game broke my heart. How could Burr Carlson let someone break Wes Bialasuknia's single game scoring record! I remember listening to it on my clock radio and being so angry about it.
 
80 something? Civic Center. Do not recall the opponent. I do recall being entertained by Earl Kelley. In subsequent games at the Field House, there was a lady who would always yell “SHOOT IT EARL!”. I recall clearly the game vs ST Johns at the new Gampel Pavilion. Random thoughts.
 
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