The postgame rowdiness resulted in 15 arrests and 16 people taken to the hospital.
Gampel Pavilion, the school’s basketball arena, was open Monday night for students to watch the game, whichMuch of the partying, which lasted into the early morning, was peaceful, but social media and television video showed students taking down signs and light posts, with several using one pole to smash through the glass portion of a door at one campus building as a crowd cheered.
Reitz said the damage also included broken windows, a vehicle flipped on its side and fires set in trash dumpsters and on wooden benches. “We were on the streets and people were going crazy,” said Nancy Toskova, a 20-year-old junior from Montreal, Quebec. “Everyone was celebrating. Everyone was happy. You felt good. Everyone came together. I was expecting something worse to be honest. I was expecting cars flipping and fires everywhere and people breaking everything, which happened but not to the extent I imagined.”
Crews worked feverishly through the morning to clean up the debris and make repairs. Classes and other academic operations were being held as regularly scheduled, Reitz said.The team was scheduled to return home to Storrs Tuesday afternoon, with a rally planned inside Gampel, the team’s home arena. Tape covers a broken window on a door of the Student Union building on the University of Connecticut campus, in Storrs, Conn. Fans vandalized campus after the basketball team won the NCAA championship.The Huskies were scheduled to arrive at Bradley International Airport about 3:30 p.m., with team buses making the about 40-mile drive to campus under police escort. The school said there will be no public access at the airport.
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