{"id":215768,"date":"2024-06-26T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T12:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=215768"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:39:03","slug":"uconn-magazine-the-superfans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/06\/uconn-magazine-the-superfans\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: The Superfans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Husky devotees, especially those who rally around our men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams, have been called \u201crabid,\u201d \u201cobnoxious as sh-t on social,\u201d \u201cone of the most knowledgeable and passionate fan bases out there,\u201d \u201cillogical [and] delusional\u201d \u2014 and some of that comes from our own coaches. Among a seemingly endless tide of blue-bleeders, fans who cheer from around the world and those who show up game after game, season after season (even when we\u2019re not looking so hot on the hardwood), there are some Husky Faithful who take their fandom to still another level.<\/p>\n<p>These are the superfans, the fervent, the ones you recognize from the jumbotron and some you might remember from your first game back in \u201992. There\u2019s no NIL for these folks \u2014 they\u2019re there on their own dime, rallying the crowd and buoying the team. And with 2024\u2019s second consecutive\u00a0men\u2019s basketball national\u00a0title and an unexpected women\u2019s Final Four appearance, there\u2019s no stopping them now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2024\/06\/26\/superfans\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s school spirit, and then there&#8217;s UConn Spirit <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":215769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2235,102,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1929],"class_list":["post-215768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 10:55:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215866,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215768\/revisions\/215866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/215769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215768"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=215768"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=215768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}