UConn championship win celebrations resulted in costly property damage, auditors say

People celebrating the University of Connecticut's men's basketball championship victory caused nearly $125,000 in damages in April, according to the CT Auditors of Public Accounts.

Roughly $123,000 in property damage was caused and more than a dozen students were arrested in the wake of the celebrations that turned violet at the UConn Storrs campus on April 3 and 4.

The university said 16 people were hurt during the incident. The list of damage is extensive, ranging from flood damage, vandalism to doors, windows, light poles and even a UConn patrol car.

Damage to university vehicles was in fact the costliest vandalism expense. Documents obtained by NBC Connecticut show that work vans were flipped and smashed, costing tens of thousands of dollars to repair.

The report says that damage to an air conditioner resulted in about $9,000 in damages alone. In the Torrey Life Science building, the emergency shower and eye wash station were left running in the men's first floor bathroom, causing $2,000 in flooding damages.

A full breakdown of vandalism costs can be found in the document above.

UConn issued the following statement on the report:

"Based on early information, UConn notified the state auditors of about $122,800 in damages we knew to be directly attributable to post-game vandalism on campus.

This preliminary figure does not include additional costs that continue to be tabulated, including that of employee labor to conduct the repairs. With those costs included once final invoices are received and paid, the University expects the final cost to be significantly higher than what we were able to reflect in our first round of reporting to auditors.

In some cases, UConn Police arrested suspects who were believed to have committed the acts of vandalism, and will be asking prosecutors to require them to pay restitution as part of court proceedings. Investigations remain under way into other reports of damage."