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1/23/96 vs. Central.. The father of the girl I was dating got me seats a few rows up behind the bench for Christmas.. Took pics with disposable camera that I have somewhere.
Ray was something to see in person. I also have a team photo signed of that team..
 
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Pretty sure it was February 21st, 2005 against Notre Dame at the Civic Center. UConn won 88-74. I was 7 then, currently a sophomore at UConn.
 
79 UConn Cuse game at New Haven Coliseum with my brother who was at UConn at that time. Hooked ever since.
 
My first game wasnt a game at all. April of 2000 and i was a student at the Dub (uconn wtby). A buddy and i took the ride up to gampel to celebrate our 1st championship. I was a big fan before that but coach's speech cemented my current fanatic status.
 
91-ish? Post Dream Season getting crushed by GTown at the HCC.
 
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ClassOf2021 said:
Someone PLEASE help me, I'm trying to remember which game it was but I can't figure it out. I 100% remember Hilton Armstrong was on the team, and he had a good game that day. I also know the game was at the XL Center. I can't remember who they were playing, for some reason when I try to remember the game, West Virginia pops into my head. However, considering they never played West Virginia in Hartford when Hilton was on the team, I'm guessing that is wrong. I was like 5 at the time, so I only remember those few details. But it's the first game I can remember, and I'd really like to know which one it was. Anyone got any ideas?
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I consulted the UConn oracle on the Twitter and here was his response:



Williams Hits Game-Winner To Send No. 2 Huskies Over LSU, 67-66

MBB: 1/7/2006 – #2 UConn vs. LSU (W, 67-66)

Ring any bells?
 
I forget the date but it was Thanksgiving weekend. UConn played Towson State at Hershey park Arena. Reading High school gave an award to Donyel Marshall. Sparce crowd. Penn State had a football game the same afternoon. So, it had to be mid to late 90's.
 
I always somewhat liked the Huskies growing up because they sent some real nice players to the NBA and had some great teams (as a Nigerian and a B-more kid, loved Okafor and Gay), but didn't really follow them until I got to campus. Growing up in Maryland in the 2000's it was all about Gary Williams, Juan Dixon, Shane Battier, and JJ Redick, so that was my main exposure to the sport.

I transferred to UCONN in 2009 for my sophomore year and bought the remainder of the Gampel season ticket lottery games off of somebody for a stupid price. My first game in December; UCONN vs. Harvard. I remember thinking it would be an easy win against a bad team, but Harvard came to play and were giving us all we could handle. They had this little Asian kid running point and he was ridiculous, just killing UCONN all game and easily outplaying Kemba. Had great handle, could shoot, and even had showed real hops throwing down a dunk. I spent most of the second half just wondering who the hell this dude was and where tf did he come from? We ended up winning a close hard-fought game, and as Knicks fan, it was a little less surprising for me than everyone else when that same dude starting showing out at the Garden 3 years later.

The game against #1 Texas a month or so later is what made me a fan for life, though. Crazy atmosphere, great win, and maybe the most fun I've ever had at a sporting event. Didn't storm the court, though.
 
It was 1983, on campus. The USA network (?) broadcast it nationally. We played Seton Hall for the cellar of the Big East. The Husky mascot got into a fight with the Seton Hall Pirate. Punches thrown.

The B.C. (before Calhoun) years were a trip.
 
Uconn lost to UVA by 13 at the Civic Center was my first recollection. Dec 1987. Some dudes were booing the team and my father went bonkers on them. May have been that year or the one before that we lost to Hartford in the Ct Mutual Classic...saw that as well...but we were only a couple of years from magic!
 
Early to mid 80s Syracuse at the Civic Center. Ball at mid court with seconds to go. Jeff King throws into the backcourt. Cuse steals and put in layup to win. Crickets at HCC walking out
 
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Man, I don't remember the first time. Was definitely around 98. I remember being at the parade after the first NC.

My best game experience was actually not even during a live game. I was at Gampel for the video showing of the NC in 2011. I'd broken my pelvis two weeks earlier, got absolutely hammered on tequila and was dancing with my crutches in the air at center court after the win. Crutched all the way from Gampel to Carriage.
 
2010-2011 game at Gampel v Louisville. Went to double OT and Lousiville won in OT. Peyton Siva was a mad man down the stretch. UConn got the last laugh that hear though...
 
Redding Husky said:
It was 1983, on campus. The USA network (?) broadcast it nationally. We played Seton Hall for the cellar of the Big East. The Husky mascot got into a fight with the Seton Hall Pirate. Punches thrown.

The B.C. (before Calhoun) years were a trip.
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I was at the game, and I definitely remember the dust up between the two mascots. It was nuts. Also remember going with a a good female friend (not my girl friend) of mine who nearly squeezed my arm off when the game was on the line at the end.
 
I don't recall who it was against, but would've been in the 76-77 season with the Hanson/Whelton/Weston/Abro/LaVinge crew.

I recall thinking the Field House was not all that much more impressive than the gym at Stamford High.
 
89-90 season at Gampel. Don’t remember which game. But remember where I was for the shot. Buckley 511 North.
 
I'm sorry to have to say I had to consult the media guide to figure it out. It was the first game of the 1973-74 season at the FH, a 102-88 win over Yale. I will readily admit I remember absolutely nothing about that game, but give me a break. I was a UCONN student for the first time. Many of you know what that means. Diminished mental capacity is a given.

My first UCONN football game predates that by close to 10 years. My dad and I attended every Yale home game throughout the 1960's. One of those games was always against UCONN, always the first game of Yale's season. We were there when Gene Campbell intercepted a Yale pass and returned it for a TD and UCONN's first win over Yale in 17 games. The crowd of 40,000 went crazy. I was with a friend of the family UCONN co-ed I had a huge crush on. We were hugging and kissing. I was a not so little perv.
 
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I don't remember what the first game was, but it was in the Field house in the late 70's. I was at the last game at the Field house and the first game at Gampel...what a transition to make us the premier team for the next 25 years..
 
After listening to a few years on WTIC with George Ehrlich and bugging my dad to take me
to a game we finally in 1964 went to see uconn and UNH. Uconn won by 7 or 8, but the one thing I remember was Bill DellaSala heaving one from 3/4 court and banking it in, but it was just after the horn and didn’t count. Before the game was a preliminary freshman game and uconn was undefeated with Holloway, Bialosuknia, Penders,etc.
One of my other early games was seeing Bialosuknia scoring 50 vs. Maine. Would have been over 60 if there was a 3 point line!
 
tjhusky said:
79 UConn Cuse game at New Haven Coliseum with my brother who was at UConn at that time. Hooked ever since.
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That was a heck of a game. Too bad the Morris Mountain never played that well again.
 
Skiblets said:
Early to mid 80s Syracuse at the Civic Center. Ball at mid court with seconds to go. Jeff King throws into the backcourt. Cuse steals and put in layup to win. Crickets at HCC walking out
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That was the NIT Title year. Jeff King was able to make up for that bad pass later on.
 
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Waquoit said:
So do you feel lucky to be alive?
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I definitely appreciate how lucky I was now.
 
I was going since 1961 but the first game I remember a lot about was vs. URI 1965 when they had Art Stepheson and UConn had Wes B and Toby K. It was in RI at an arena in Providence and we went with Walt Dropo who was my fathers roommate and frat brother when they went to UConn (my Dad was a sophomore and Walt was a senior and became fast friends). My greatest memory of those early years was watching Wes B break a record for a game high which helped him be the nations leading scorer in the fieldhouse vs Maine in 1967. That was our second year of season tickets and we were in Row CC (amazing how you remember those kind of things).
 
February 20, 1988 vs. Syracuse. UConn inbounding at mid court, tie game. Jeff King throws it right to Stevie Thompson, breakaway dunk, we lose.

Edit: didn't read the thread. I see others got that great introduction as well . . .
 
Nov 1985 freshman year at the Fieldhouse probably Yale. Earl Kelley was the man. Cliff and Phil were freshmen. Tim Coles and GerryBesselink were undersized big guys.

Later that season UConn beat Pitt in the last BigEast game in the Fieldhouse. The BE minimum seating requirement went into effect 86-87, so all BE games would have to be played in Hartford for the balance of my years in Storrs.
 
Deepster said:
I don't remember the exact game but remember it was 1980 in the Civic Center and thinking Mike McKay dunking was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. It was the first time I'd ever seen anyone dunk live before.
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Mine was around then. My dad worked for The Hartford and they had a box. So we’d go to UConn and Whalers games whenever it was open. No real luxury like today. I cant recall a specific game but it was very late 70s or 1980. Loved those teams.

Went to UConn in 1984, so many games in the Field House. Had student tickets (courtesy of my sister and an illegal student sticker) when Gampel opened just as I had graduated. So I was behind the basket, row 2-3 for St, Johns on game #1.
 
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