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Bowling Green finds itself, fans find Bowling Green after upset

BOWLING GREEN — They hung over the railings and spilled in to the aisles, a full-throated overflow crowd of more than 5,000 filling the Stroh Center to the rafters, steadily coming to a boil.

Then ...

Bedlam.

As the buzzer sounded on Bowling Green’s 92-88 win Friday against 18th-ranked Buffalo, imagine firing up a jet engine in a one-car garage.

So many years of frustration by a fan base desperate to let down their well-earned guard yielded to a foundation-rattling quake of joy, and soon an orange sea of students had swallowed the court.