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BOSTON Good evening from TD Garden. My first glimpse of UConn's home-court advantage came via the fan in the Huskies quarter-zip next to me on the Green Line into downtown. There's no doubt there will be more UConn logos in the crowd than San Diego State; we're 83 miles from the campus in Storrs and … 2,992 from SDSU. This, after a quick trip to Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the first two rounds, is the benefit of being the No. 1 overall seed."We've manifested Brooklyn to Boston since really April, since last year when we won the championship," Huskies coach Dan Hurley said Wednesday. "We've worked incredibly hard over that time period to earn the opportunity to play in front of hopefully a 60 percent UConn type of crowd. Hopefully, Illinois' fans away and Iowa State's fans don't get involved."