And thanks for joining us. I'm Lisa Carver.
Dennis is off tonight. We begin with the Yukon men's
basketball team,
battling it out for a quick a back-to-back national championship.
They're going against Purdue, who has never won one.
And while the game is taking place in Arizona,
UConn opened up Gamble Pavilion for a watch party.
And that's where we find News 8's Bob Wilson with
a close up look at UConn Nation.
Bob.
And risky for Jones. Yeah,
it is incredible lottery. You want to know about the
energy and the passion.
Here they are cheering, hanging on every basket as the
ball goes back and forth.
close game here. A lot of excitement.
7000 students were allowed inside.
They had to have tickets ahead of time and they
had to show an idea to get in.
There's no alcohol being sold and so far so good.
Just a lot of cheering and rowdy students as they
kind of circle around here and kind of come around
and they're cheering quite hard here.
And they say one of the biggest things about this
event is the crowd noise and just the Husky pride
as they all come together to cheer on the men
to hopefully their second national championship.
Very loud, very loud. Almost to the point where like
I need to put some ear plugs in or something,
but that's how we have to get.
We have to get high.
It's amazing, honestly. Like, it's such a fun environment,
especially for the championship and two years in a row
would be amazing.
It's definitely a crazy experience to just see everybody hype,
you know, literally every basket from the very start of
the game.
It's a great feeling and especially see like it's all
the Yukon 5 and everything.
Crazy. The energy here was just insane.
Like everyone was just like so happy that we made
it past because for two years in a row.
That's an accomplishment.
It isn't a compliment if they can pull off the
little earlier coming up to half time now.
Students all starting to head out bathrooms here as they
get ready to break.
But one more half to go.
Fingers crossed we'll have to wait and see how this
plays out here at Gamble Pavilion.
I'm Bob Wilson, live on the Storm's Campus News 8.