Atmosphere markedly different in Coliseum

You’d of thought a gang of master criminals had hit the Coliseum box office and made off with the take from the crowd of 15,593 fans who jammed their way in for Monday night’s West Virginia-Villanova basketball game judging by the police presence.

There were university police and state police everywhere you turned. Everyone but Joe Friday and Lenny Briscoe, it seemed, had gathered to make sure that gang of master criminals who come to the basketball games disguised as college students didn’t get out of hand.

This was the first night after the knee jerk reaction – the emphasis on the word jerk after the student’s unruly performance for last Friday’s Pitt game — and there were changes in the air.

To begin with, the students were not going to be allowed to shout “Suck eggs” when a visiting player was introduced.

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