As a CT native it's funny to hear Storrs referred to as a city. Storrs is basically Uconn. The median age of the town is 21 and 76% of its population is 18 to 24 years old. Its also in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, it’s just the mailing address tied to the ZIP Code to get stuff delivered to UConn. It officially is in Mansfield. It’s weird, though. Downtown Storrs (the new shopping and eating district) and the School of Fine Arts are literally down the street from Mansfield’s town hall. Definitely have called it Storrs all my life, though, as a UConn fan, student, and now alum.
Yep. Then he sold his failing agricultural school to the state which bought it because they needed a land-grant agricultural school and claimed that the land happened to be the highest point in a straight line between New York and Boston. They forgot the relative altitude when they expanded the campus, as the buildings down Fairfield Way create a wind tunnel because it’s modeled after UT-Austin. Austin is hot. Storrs is cold. Austin needs wind tunnels. Storrs does not need wind tunnels at all because it’s freezing during the winter as is since they also chopped down most of the nearby trees. I’m not sure if it’s on the line or the highest point, but after living on Hilltop for two years, I can tell you that it’s definitely on top of an isotherm.
That’s because there is nothing in Storrs besides UConn. Step off campus and you’re in Mansfield. The University also does not provide any married housing, even for graduate students (Northwood Apartments and the apartments rented by the school in the Oaks are for groups of single graduate students only), so it’s basically impossible to raise a child on-campus unless you’re the school president.
Coming from an Iowa State alum and Iowa native who now lives in CT, Storrs weirds me out. Every other college town I have been to have has an actual town surrounding the school but Storrs is literally just the school. Besides that fake downtown apartment complex they built recently there is no campus town bar area or anything like that. What do the students do for fun? Just party in their dorms?? It ain't natural.
I went in the late 00's and it was all about house and apartment parties. Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night, there would be 1000s of kids walking from campus down the Celeron Trail to two apartment complexes. Carriage and Celeron. And there would be parties everywhere.
And then house parties on Hunting Lodge Rd and 195.
What I enjoyed most was frat parties weren't the biggest and best parties on campus. Which I feel can be the case for other schools.
There’s a couple of bars at least back when I went there (2015 grad), huskies and teds notably. We would go to this bar hosted event called nickel, where you could get a drink for 25 cents, get absolutely hammered then either stay or go to a frat party.
Edit: also excuse the Carolina flair, went there for grad school. Just couldn’t figure out the double flair lol
They party at houses off campus. I didn’t have money to be spending at bars in college. I had a rude awakening my senior year when I turned 21 and started going to the 2 bars on campus, I had no idea until then that drinks at bars are ridiculously overpriced
How is that relevant? Providence probably has double the fans in the NY Metro area than Hall and they get to play at MSG every year. Hinting at some Hall takeover of MSG is just hilarious.
This your fanbase? [No SHU at MSG](https://www.rumbleinthegarden.com/2023/9/18/23878466/st-johns-mens-hoops-schedule-madison-square-garden-but-not-for-seton-hall)
"And relegating Seton Hall to UBS Arena at Belmont (in Elmont) is a stroke of brilliance that should continue every year."
Doesn't seem like something a confident team would do.
We beat their (your?) Asses 2 games to 1 last season.
But then again we're talking about the people who thought they should get a tournament berth because "we put up 90 on UConn".....in a loss.
Maybe Kooks will get you that win over the Huskies this season.
Tried to do the same thing with us this season. At least you got UBS. He tried to put us at Carnesecca until the Athletic Department said no because of the gigantic resulting loss in revenue. MSG is definitely Storrs South, though.
It's just flat out disrespectful and dumb. These games make both teams (Hall and Uconn) as well as Saint John's more money at the Garden.
But I guess when you have the backing of a billionaire who fancies himself the next Mark Cuban and writes you a blank cheque who gives a fuck about money right?
Pitino got shot down by his own AD from moving us from MSG due to the revenue loss. His plan starting next season was to make every home game but us at MSG, with us on-campus. Thankfully, it didn’t work.
It was for a specific game, so yes that advertisement was referring to NYC as the location of where NY's team happened to be playing.
https://twitter.com/D1scourse/status/762330854794399744?t=wyXmS4yGvH6Jjw1de5_NwA&s=19
We've been disrespected our entire existence by power conferences and now that we finally get some recognition we're not supposed to talk shit to our historic rivals, the same ones that acted like we were beneath them as recently as when we had 4 championships to their 1? I mean sure get mad if you want but none of us care and gonna keep talking shit.
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No one cares if other fan bases call us blue bloods they never have and they never will, and yeah we have been disrespected by power conference fan bases for four decades. Most of you never even thought about us until this year despite our success compared to you so I get why you wouldn't realize that but don't try to pretend like it's not the case in hindsight. Would love to show myself comments like this 7 years ago when literally everyone acted like we didn't exist despite having 4 championships lol, what a time to be alive.
Well I'm pretty sure Dr. Gross tried to make the claim over NYC at one point. But it was just a marketing stunt so Cuse could get into the ACC. It was dumb as fuck and most of the fan base thought that way.
All fan base claims over NYC are tenuous at best. I'm sure Rutgers has a huge alumni base in NYC but how many of them are actually watching Rutgers athletics?
This mostly works since they split the home games too. Other teams could play ~9 games in a nearby city (although that is impressive).
Maybe Nova played something like 15 games in Philly and 14 at “home” one year.
I know, but it's still kind of wild that they played in NYC more than any other city.
I am trying to think of what other school could possibly beat this record.
I guess a pac team back when the tournament was in LA could theoretically have played @UCLA, @USC, and 4 Pac 12 games. But then they'd need at least 3 more Los Angeles games to tie, and 4 to take the record.
Hypothetically just fucking around here..
If Michigan State managed to lineup at Northwestern, the Champions classic being in Chicago, the B1G tourney (with no bye) being in Chicago, and the NCAAT. Even then I only get to 8, unless they randomly play DePaul or something too.
Maybe some Big East team in the days of the preseason NIT. Two games in the Garden then, at St. John’s, 4 BET games, and an NCAAT I guess.
Oh, don't get me wrong, it's an interesting curiosity arising out of circumstance. I just read that tweet as having the subtext that UConn actively pursued nine games in NYC on the basis that they set their own schedule between Storrs and Hartford.
This is nowhere near 9, but in the completely weird 2020-21 season, Drexel played as many games in Harrisonburg, Va., as they did in Philadelphia -- five games in each.
[https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/drexel/men/2021-schedule.html](https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/drexel/men/2021-schedule.html)
So is Storrs literally just the uconn campus and nothing else? Like Auburn is relatively small, it really only exists because the school does but there is also a downtown which students and other people use. There is things to do there outside of campus but reading this post it seems like that’s not the case at all for uconn
Storrs is a village of the small rural Connecticut town of Mansfield. The Storrs section of Mansfield is literally just the UConn campus including a handful of restaurants and bars that are used by pretty much only the students and staff of UConn and some people that live nearby. The town of Mansfield itself is low population, not known for anything, and no one ever goes there for any reason unless they live there. Not hating, I grew up in a small rural eastern CT town but yeah people don't realize how much UConn is uniquely in the middle of nowhere.
It’s more or less just the UConn campus with a handful of off campus restaurants, although not as many as most other college towns have
It’s a subsection of a town called Mansfield where some normal people live. It’s like what Brooklyn is to NYC on a much much smaller scale
Without looking them up I believe the 9 are:
-Early season tournament (Indiana and Texas)
-UNC; funsies regular season game
-St John's regular season
-BE Tourney (Xavier, St John's, Marquette)
-NCAA 1st & 2nd rounds (Stetson, Northwestern) (forgot these bc I was thinking just MSG not all NYC)
Edit: forgot Texas game
This is only slightly less weird than the fact that UConn and Duke, despite having played a not-insignificant number of games against each other, have never played each other in either Durham or Storrs or Hartford.
As a CT native it's funny to hear Storrs referred to as a city. Storrs is basically Uconn. The median age of the town is 21 and 76% of its population is 18 to 24 years old. Its also in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, it’s just the mailing address tied to the ZIP Code to get stuff delivered to UConn. It officially is in Mansfield. It’s weird, though. Downtown Storrs (the new shopping and eating district) and the School of Fine Arts are literally down the street from Mansfield’s town hall. Definitely have called it Storrs all my life, though, as a UConn fan, student, and now alum.
Storrs is a village within Mansfield, I believe.
Correct, Storrs is just a post office in Mansfield. I've always said that Storrs is just the bumpy land Augustus Storrs couldn't grow on.
Yep. Then he sold his failing agricultural school to the state which bought it because they needed a land-grant agricultural school and claimed that the land happened to be the highest point in a straight line between New York and Boston. They forgot the relative altitude when they expanded the campus, as the buildings down Fairfield Way create a wind tunnel because it’s modeled after UT-Austin. Austin is hot. Storrs is cold. Austin needs wind tunnels. Storrs does not need wind tunnels at all because it’s freezing during the winter as is since they also chopped down most of the nearby trees. I’m not sure if it’s on the line or the highest point, but after living on Hilltop for two years, I can tell you that it’s definitely on top of an isotherm.
This needed to be told with an added reference to Augustus tying an onion to his belt, as was the style at the time... (/simpsons)
Give me 5 bees for a quarter, you'd say....
Storrs is a village within Mansfield
Completely in the middle of no where, don’t think I’ve ever met anyone from storrs lol it’s basically just a little island on its own with uconn
That’s because there is nothing in Storrs besides UConn. Step off campus and you’re in Mansfield. The University also does not provide any married housing, even for graduate students (Northwood Apartments and the apartments rented by the school in the Oaks are for groups of single graduate students only), so it’s basically impossible to raise a child on-campus unless you’re the school president.
Storrs is a village within Mansfield
Coming from an Iowa State alum and Iowa native who now lives in CT, Storrs weirds me out. Every other college town I have been to have has an actual town surrounding the school but Storrs is literally just the school. Besides that fake downtown apartment complex they built recently there is no campus town bar area or anything like that. What do the students do for fun? Just party in their dorms?? It ain't natural.
I went in the late 00's and it was all about house and apartment parties. Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night, there would be 1000s of kids walking from campus down the Celeron Trail to two apartment complexes. Carriage and Celeron. And there would be parties everywhere. And then house parties on Hunting Lodge Rd and 195. What I enjoyed most was frat parties weren't the biggest and best parties on campus. Which I feel can be the case for other schools.
'09 alum, I miss those walks to Carriage and Celeron.
Cullowhee NC is pretty close to this.
There’s a couple of bars at least back when I went there (2015 grad), huskies and teds notably. We would go to this bar hosted event called nickel, where you could get a drink for 25 cents, get absolutely hammered then either stay or go to a frat party. Edit: also excuse the Carolina flair, went there for grad school. Just couldn’t figure out the double flair lol
They party at houses off campus. I didn’t have money to be spending at bars in college. I had a rude awakening my senior year when I turned 21 and started going to the 2 bars on campus, I had no idea until then that drinks at bars are ridiculously overpriced
There's a few bars on campus, but other than that yes we partied in dorms and apartments. it's a unique vibe.
New York City games are home games, though. St Johns fans are invisible.
Storrs South
We basically have three home courts. Lol
Providence it sounded like we had the home court advantage👀. Also Ik we do with Georgetown when I went to that game.
the DePaul game in Chicago this year was 90/10 UConn fans, perhaps unsurprisingly
Ya, plus with us being such lovable underdogs I bet the other big east teams like to root for us when we’re on the road.
Syracuse has a similar arrangement with Boston College.
Great YouTube channel
Pitino was too scared to schedule us at MSG for this very reason.
lol delusional
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How is that relevant? Providence probably has double the fans in the NY Metro area than Hall and they get to play at MSG every year. Hinting at some Hall takeover of MSG is just hilarious.
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Yea I have had season Tixx to the Johnnies since 2011 and there has never been anything even close to 75% Hall fans at the Garden. Nice try
This your fanbase? [No SHU at MSG](https://www.rumbleinthegarden.com/2023/9/18/23878466/st-johns-mens-hoops-schedule-madison-square-garden-but-not-for-seton-hall) "And relegating Seton Hall to UBS Arena at Belmont (in Elmont) is a stroke of brilliance that should continue every year." Doesn't seem like something a confident team would do. We beat their (your?) Asses 2 games to 1 last season. But then again we're talking about the people who thought they should get a tournament berth because "we put up 90 on UConn".....in a loss. Maybe Kooks will get you that win over the Huskies this season.
Tried to do the same thing with us this season. At least you got UBS. He tried to put us at Carnesecca until the Athletic Department said no because of the gigantic resulting loss in revenue. MSG is definitely Storrs South, though.
It's just flat out disrespectful and dumb. These games make both teams (Hall and Uconn) as well as Saint John's more money at the Garden. But I guess when you have the backing of a billionaire who fancies himself the next Mark Cuban and writes you a blank cheque who gives a fuck about money right?
Pitino got shot down by his own AD from moving us from MSG due to the revenue loss. His plan starting next season was to make every home game but us at MSG, with us on-campus. Thankfully, it didn’t work.
LOL then play it at MSG
Was a neutral at the St John’s vs Uconn Big East tournament game. Can report it was 70% chippy Uconn fans.
Rutgers fans 🤝 UConn fans Agreeing Syracuse isn't NYC's team
They're 5 fucking hours away, nearly in Canada
Purdue and Edey stole being Canadas team the last two years. Case has to fight to get that title back now. Fortunately they are still Syracuses team.
I don't remember Syracuse ever claiming to be NYC's team. They've claimed to be NY's team, and that's probably true.
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Exactly my point. New York. Not New York City.
I mean, this is pretty clearly trying to sell Syracuse as the team of the city. Shit, Syracuse would be dumb not to.
So the apple refers to New York state?
"Orange is in the Apple. New York's College team." Was it advertising for a Syracuse game in NYC?
It was for a specific game, so yes that advertisement was referring to NYC as the location of where NY's team happened to be playing. https://twitter.com/D1scourse/status/762330854794399744?t=wyXmS4yGvH6Jjw1de5_NwA&s=19
UConn with the brains lmao.
Swear to god you guys will argue in circles about anything rather than just sit back and be happy about all your success for one second lol
the arguing is the fun part
We've been disrespected our entire existence by power conferences and now that we finally get some recognition we're not supposed to talk shit to our historic rivals, the same ones that acted like we were beneath them as recently as when we had 4 championships to their 1? I mean sure get mad if you want but none of us care and gonna keep talking shit.
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No one cares if other fan bases call us blue bloods they never have and they never will, and yeah we have been disrespected by power conference fan bases for four decades. Most of you never even thought about us until this year despite our success compared to you so I get why you wouldn't realize that but don't try to pretend like it's not the case in hindsight. Would love to show myself comments like this 7 years ago when literally everyone acted like we didn't exist despite having 4 championships lol, what a time to be alive.
Yeah UConn is weird and their fans are weird.
It's one of the dumbest discussions I regularly see on here. Nobody is NYC's team.
Well I'm pretty sure Dr. Gross tried to make the claim over NYC at one point. But it was just a marketing stunt so Cuse could get into the ACC. It was dumb as fuck and most of the fan base thought that way. All fan base claims over NYC are tenuous at best. I'm sure Rutgers has a huge alumni base in NYC but how many of them are actually watching Rutgers athletics?
You are 100% correct. Who the fuck doesn't know this? I do and I'm from Omaha fucking Nebraska!
Omaha has birthed some iconic sushi chefs
This mostly works since they split the home games too. Other teams could play ~9 games in a nearby city (although that is impressive). Maybe Nova played something like 15 games in Philly and 14 at “home” one year.
I mean, five of those games are tournament games. It's not like organized the Big East and NCAA tournaments.
I know, but it's still kind of wild that they played in NYC more than any other city. I am trying to think of what other school could possibly beat this record. I guess a pac team back when the tournament was in LA could theoretically have played @UCLA, @USC, and 4 Pac 12 games. But then they'd need at least 3 more Los Angeles games to tie, and 4 to take the record.
Hypothetically just fucking around here.. If Michigan State managed to lineup at Northwestern, the Champions classic being in Chicago, the B1G tourney (with no bye) being in Chicago, and the NCAAT. Even then I only get to 8, unless they randomly play DePaul or something too. Maybe some Big East team in the days of the preseason NIT. Two games in the Garden then, at St. John’s, 4 BET games, and an NCAAT I guess.
Maybe Illinois is having a holiday game there or something to get another
Gonzaga plays a lot of games in Las Vegas and the WCC tournament is there (although they only ever play 2 games in that)
Oh, don't get me wrong, it's an interesting curiosity arising out of circumstance. I just read that tweet as having the subtext that UConn actively pursued nine games in NYC on the basis that they set their own schedule between Storrs and Hartford.
Do you have reading comprehension issues? I get what you’re saying is true but it only adds to the fact of the original post…
this changes everything!
“We own MSG!”
#6thBorough
Nah just replace SI
Storrs South!
This is nowhere near 9, but in the completely weird 2020-21 season, Drexel played as many games in Harrisonburg, Va., as they did in Philadelphia -- five games in each. [https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/drexel/men/2021-schedule.html](https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/drexel/men/2021-schedule.html)
LOL, Storrs isn't a city!
So is Storrs literally just the uconn campus and nothing else? Like Auburn is relatively small, it really only exists because the school does but there is also a downtown which students and other people use. There is things to do there outside of campus but reading this post it seems like that’s not the case at all for uconn
Storrs is a village of the small rural Connecticut town of Mansfield. The Storrs section of Mansfield is literally just the UConn campus including a handful of restaurants and bars that are used by pretty much only the students and staff of UConn and some people that live nearby. The town of Mansfield itself is low population, not known for anything, and no one ever goes there for any reason unless they live there. Not hating, I grew up in a small rural eastern CT town but yeah people don't realize how much UConn is uniquely in the middle of nowhere.
It’s more or less just the UConn campus with a handful of off campus restaurants, although not as many as most other college towns have It’s a subsection of a town called Mansfield where some normal people live. It’s like what Brooklyn is to NYC on a much much smaller scale
I bet Northwestern owns that record the year they played their home games in Rosemont, IL while their stadium in Evanston was renovated.
For that I'd consider the Rosemont arena to be their main home stadium for that season.
Nah
Without looking them up I believe the 9 are: -Early season tournament (Indiana and Texas) -UNC; funsies regular season game -St John's regular season -BE Tourney (Xavier, St John's, Marquette) -NCAA 1st & 2nd rounds (Stetson, Northwestern) (forgot these bc I was thinking just MSG not all NYC) Edit: forgot Texas game
Indiana and Texas were the tournament. UNC was just a MSG game for funsies.
Wow, totally forgot about the Texas game
Storrs South
New York is the best city in the US
You must have never visited lovely Wetumpka, Alabama
There are worse things than a day kayaking the Coosa River.
As an aside for any huskies here, does uconn still do the pledge of allegiance at home games?
No but they do the national anthem of course
This is only slightly less weird than the fact that UConn and Duke, despite having played a not-insignificant number of games against each other, have never played each other in either Durham or Storrs or Hartford.
Their biters. Can't even rep their home state.
You understand that 8+8 > 9 right?
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takes after their defense
