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Here's the deal; I love UConn basketball probably the same level that die hard Yankee and Red Soxs fans love their team.  I love the Red Soxs as well, but UConn basketball games make my anxiety rise during close games.  While last night's championship game was no where near that type of anxiety, only when they drained that three at the end of the half, I was beyond words for how excited I was that they won.

I mean this team was not expected to do ANYTHING.  A team of mostly freshmen, with a few sophomores and a star junior, nobody really thought they would do anything.  Then they won the Maui tournament, and started to take the world by storm.  Maybe not the world, because UConn had a bunch of haters with the NCAA troubles from last year, but I mean they sure did shock me every chance they got.

I remember back to my senior year, when Kemba was just starting out.  And now he has brought the championship trophy back to the little farm town in Connecticut.  I loved how Olander cheered and celebrated like crazy after the win.  I love all the videos of the boys dancing.  And I love how at a bar full of older people last night, cheers erupted after we won the game.

 The man.  The myth. The legend.  I don't know what it is about Jimmy Calhoun but I really do love this man.  Maybe it's the fact that he freaks out when his players do bad.  Or the fact that I can now call when he will pull a player out right after they mess up on a play.  Or maybe it's because he truly does love this team and has never discounted them for anything.  But I'm SO freaking glad he won this game.  What a way to end a season, and possibly even bow out gracefully

Then last night they won; of course it was after I graduated, but I couldn't be more happy.  I loved watching the press conference, I loved all my fellow alum statuses and I loved seeing all the videos from people I know still on campus.  What I wouldn't give to still be on campus, to go see them as they arrived from the airport, or even to go to the parade.  While I wish the game was a little more exciting, I am still so freaking happy that they won, with the help of the supporting cast more then anything else to gain the win.