I don't follow many sports, but one of the few I do is College Basketball. I don't follow all different teams and stats too much but I do love the UCONN Huskies. It's my home state (Connecticut) and about the only sport worth watching here.

The women's team has been one of the top teams over the last 10 years, and they have won numerous championships. They are great, and the coach does a fantastic job. However, I mostly watch the men's team.

I first started watching basketball, and the Huskies, back in college. I don't know why -- I think it was 1990 or 1991 when the Huskies started doing well out of nowhere. They had a great run in the tournament, including the famous full court 3-point shot with .3 (point 3) seconds left on the clock from the far corner. All hope was lost... they took a timeout and the inbounder heaved the ball full court to a player standing in the corner just beyond the arc. Funny, I don't even remember who took the shot, but they caught the ball, turned and released -- straight in to win the game. It was incredible.

The Huskies did ok through the early part of the 90's and then started improving a great deal towards the end of the decade... they kept making it far into the tournament but just falling short.

Finally in 1999 they won, beating Duke 77-74 in an incredible game. I was watching at "Coaches", a bar in Stamford CT (no longer exists) that was actually owned by Jim Calhoun, the head coach of the Huskies. It was a decent place, so it was too bad it is gone. It was great to go there to watch the big games. Anyway, the crowd went nuts -- I actually have some videos from it somewhere I took on an old Mavica digital camera (that used floppy disks). Maybe I'll try to get it online sometime.

In 2004 they did it again, beating Georgia Tech 82-73. That was another exciting year. I was lucky in that we were on a family trip to Las Vegas during March Madness. After that we were heading to Arizona to visit my brother-in-law. It just turned out that UCONN kept winning, and that they would be playing in Arizona when we were there -- so I was able to buy some tickets on EBay and see one of the final rounds live. The only negative was that I was hoping Syracuse had won there game, then we would have seen UCONN Syracuse which is a huge matchup for those of you in the Big East... and my wife is from Syracuse. Oh well, it was great anyway!