This past month has been a wild ride for the Husky Ticket Project.

Founded in 2018, the charity aims to raise money to buy UConn tickets so that kids who might not otherwise have the chance to go to games will have the opportunity. In recent weeks the charity has blown up onto the national stage, riding the Hot Sauce Challenge to more than $60,000 in donations.

Today co-founder Kevin Kortsep joins the show to talk about the Husky Ticket Project's wild and unexpected success, how the charity plans to use its recent windfall and what it's next steps will be. Kortsep, who graduated from UConn in 2012 and is a lifelong fan, also shares his own experiences growing up rooting for the Huskies, the kind he hopes the Husky Ticket Project can help cultivate for the next generation of UConn fans.

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Podcast artwork courtesy of Jon Kulakofsky/The Daily Campus 2014.

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