College Basketball
- Chants
- DE-FENSE! *Clap-Clap*
- An ominous yell while their team is on defense, usually accompanied with jumping.
- Let's Go *Clap.. Clap.. Clap Clap Clap*
- Air-ball! (after the opposing team misses a shot that doesn't even hit the basket)
- Fun-da-men-tals! or Back to Ba-Sics! (Usually after a turnover, travel, or double dribble)
- Bull-shit! (After a call that is not in their favor by referees, usually deemed inappropriate and discouraged)
- Choke! (Before the opponent shoots a free throw)
- Over-rated! Clap..Clap..Clap Clap Clap (when the under dog wins)
Sixth man clubs originated in college basketball, where deep crowds of students assemble to chant for their team. Quality sixth man squads attend home and away games to support their team. Many create identical shirts to appear unified and even more numerous. Sixth man clubs name themselves based on their school mascot or color.
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Famous quotes containing the words college and/or basketball:
“Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)