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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4438046, member: 10"] The Register and Courant wrote similar articles on the 2 of them talking on the flight. Hurley picking Geno's brain. Interesting quotes from Calhoun about sharing a flight with Geno's team on the way home from Kansas, where the women won and the men got blitzed and Calhoun was not in a good mood. [B][U][SIZE=5]New Haven Register:[/SIZE][/U][/B] [I]"He's got a great staff, he's got a helluva team," Auriemma noted. "He loves his team. I don't think he needs any help from me. They're really, really good. I wouldn't be surprised if they win the whole thing." Told about this, Hurley was flattered. "There would be more pressure," he noted, "if people thought we stunk and we had no shot."[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nhregister.com/sports/uconn/article/UConn-men-s-and-women-s-basketball-teams-travel-17606731.php[/URL] [B][U]Alternate free access:[/U][/B] [HEADING=2][SIZE=4][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]UConn men's and women's basketball programs share a flight, mutual respect at Phil Knight Invitational[/COLOR][/SIZE][/HEADING] [B][U][SIZE=5]Hartford Courant:[/SIZE][/U][/B] [I]“It was probably me asking a lot of questions about bigger picture things,” Hurley said. “Short-term things about coaching the current teams, program-building things. A great resource, to get stuck on a 6 1/2-hour flight and be able to steal some knowledge from an all-timer.”[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/hc-sp-amore-column-uconn-men-dan-hurley-geno-auriemma-20221126-20221124-xlf6j2a7sraohcfkssit74un3y-story.html[/URL] [B][U]Alternate free access:[/U][/B] [HEADING=2][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)][URL='https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/EVHhuM'][SIZE=4]A tale of two unlikely travel partners and how UConn coaches Geno Auriemma, Dan Hurley bonded over basketball on a long flight west[/SIZE][/URL][/COLOR][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]

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