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[QUOTE="tentoesin, post: 1756061, member: 5832"]
Hello Oranges!  Husky fan here.  I’m surprised so many of you are so down on the idea of this game.  I have some great memories of the Syracuse/UConn rivalry including our win at the 1990 BE Championship while I was a student, the 6 overtime game which is one of the best college basketball games I have ever seen, your win in the 2012 BE Tournament in a great, competitive low scoring game and our win in overtime in the 2011 BE Tournament en route to a championship among many, many others.  It is an opportunity for our programs to continue this rivalry at the World’s Most Famous Arena, it is exposure in NYC, likely a national TV game, it will get great ratings and should be a heck of a lot of fun.  It has to be an upgrade to another home game against Colgate for you guys I would think.

I see some of this other stuff in this thread that some of you are worried that giving UConn the tremendous opportunity to play a program of your unprecedented stature in a neutral court game would somehow prop up the degraded state of UConn’s basketball program.  Why give a mid-major a game against the almighty Orange?  Well, don’t worry yourselves about that.  Neither program will be seriously affected either positively or adversely by our continuing a great college basketball rivalry.  As fans we should just enjoy it and be happy that our ADs recognize that scheduling good out of conference opponents helps build a stronger resume for March and a stronger product to sell in order to continue the rich traditions that have been built.  Just enjoy the game and the rivalry and don’t worry about long term implications that don’t actually exist.  I’m looking forward to it and good luck!
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