Charlottesville, in many ways an idyllic college town, made headlines in 2017 when a white supremacists descended on the town to demonstrate, leading to violence and the death of a local counterprotester.
A bride crowd-surfs outside the Boylan Heights bar in Charlottesville after the University of Virginia men's basketball team beat Purdue to advance to the NCAA championship. By Moriah Balingit Moriah Balingit Reporter covering national education issues Email Bio Follow April 9 at 1:36 AM CHARLOTTESVILLE — It was gray and damp, but the electricity in the air was unmistakable all day Monday.
Then, as the game ended, his ecstatic roommate kicked the wall in excitement, boring a hole into it. Morris poured out two shots of rum to celebrate: one for the coach, Tony Bennett, and one for his damaged wall. Sabato said the game signified a chance for the world to get to know Charlottesville beyond the headlines.
The crowds meandered to the Corner, at the crossroads of the town and campus. They shut down streets and packed together so tightly there was barely room to move. Joy was the prevailing emotion. Stephen Hoyle, a 22-year-old graduate student studying medieval literature, has been at the university for less than a year. But he was sucked in by the team, and the growing enthusiasm around them. On Monday night, he packed in to Crozet Pizza and Biker Bar and found himself hugging total strangers. Hours later, he was marveling at the crowd on the Corner.
Fans young and old, wearing T-shirts and color-coordinated dress shirts and ties, mixed in the stands. There were students, alumni and those who were raised in the town and grew to love the team, despite having no official ties to the school. He said he worries that the outside world still equates the town with the images of hatred and violence generated by the demonstration in 2017. But, he said, maybe the game was a chance for the town to change that.Jasmine Lee, a 24-year-old second-year law student, earned her undergraduate degree from the school and has been a rabid fan since she started her freshman year a half-dozen years ago. She has been waiting for this day since then.
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