Today: Mar 28, 2024

The return of the SCSU Owl Nation

Aaron JohnsonSports Editor 

Last spring for the first time in the three years I’ve been at Southern Connecticut something happened. There was a buzz on campus that had never been there. When people at Southern come to sporting events, it’s not like they are coming to see a Division-I game.

We don’t go to UConn and students, in my opinion, have a tendency to let that affect how they cheer at Southern games. But not last year. The men’s basketball team changed all of that.

Win after win, the basketball team really did give the campus a lift. The energy could be felt across campus each and every day. All of it coming to a head during the NE-10 championship game. It was not the fact it was our first conference tournament title.

It was not because it was against cross-city rival University of New Haven. It was not even the euphoria of Greg Langston’s game-winning shot as the seconds ticked down. It was in the smiles of the students that stormed the court. Hugging the players that had just put the school on the map and celebrating as a school.

As the basketball team rode that wave of emotions all the way to an appearance in the Elite Eight, the energy continue around campus. This new season is quickly approaching and with it so is that same energy.

The Blue Crew section will be rocking, the stands will be packed, and the Owls will feed off that emotion for another great run. Being a part of the most raucous crowd in the entire conference and watching as team dreading coming to play against not only a talented team, but also dealing with a student section that has been known conference wide as game-changing.

The basketball team is preseason No.2 in the country. But for those memories of storming the court against UNH and against Saint Anselm after winning the region to come full circle, that level and energy that surrounded Southern last year has to return. I think that it will, the season is right around the corner so I’m sure we all will see soon enough.

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