I’m starting to get the feeling folks in Milwaukee consider tonight’s UConn-Marquette clash a big game. Not that folks back in Connecticut don’t, but the magnitude here is impressive.
A headline in the local paper (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) called the matchup a “Clash of seismic scale.” The accompanying story stated that it’s the biggest game since Marquette made the Final Four in 2003:
“…not one (other game) comes anywhere close to matching the anticipation for, or gravity of, tonight’s showdown.”
If you needed any more proof all you had to do was look at the line of students surrounding the Bradley Center two or three hours before tipoff. I’m no crowd estimate expert but I’d say 2,000 or 3,000 were waiting to enter.
Can the game live up the hype? Probably not but it should be fun as the teams try.
The last time the Huskies came here it didn’t appear the teams were as evenly matched. But heavily favored UConn got hammered by Marquette as “Where’s My Laptop?” made its unofficial debut.
Listen for an encore performance of that tune tonight, even though it’s kind of passe these days.
- Neill
