Hurley Says UConn and Kansas Have Discussed Multi-Year H/H Series

[Drew]

 

[Scott2Tate]

I’m surprised Kansas didn’t make the trip to Storrs this year for the challenge, since we went to their home court last year.

 

[navery12]

I’m surprised Kansas didn’t make the trip to Storrs this year for the challenge, since we went to their home court last year.

Norlander talked about this on his podcast, Kansas backed out due to travel

 

[Scott2Tate]

Norlander talked about this on his podcast, Kansas backed out due to travel

Wow. That’s a WEAK excuse

 

[UConNick]

Would love:

Year one: Lawrence
Year two: Storrs
Year three: Kansas City
Year four: MSG

 

[Hoophound]

Hopefully, we’ll be in the B12 and it won’t matter.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Norlander talked about this on his podcast, Kansas backed out due to travel

“Travel”

 

[gampelcrazies]

Would love:

Year one: Lawrence
Year two: Storrs
Year three: Kansas City
Year four: MSG

Screw the neutral site games. We don’t need more MSG games. Games need to be in CT

 

[BlueMAB]

Screw the neutral site games. We don’t need more MSG games. Games need to be in CT

Six game series.
We get three home games:
Gampel
XL
MSG

 

[uconngb]

Would love:

Year one: Lawrence
Year two: Storrs
Year three: Kansas City
Year four: MSG

Why would we need to do that???

 

[HooperScooper]

“I was never told I was playing Kansas,” Hurley clarified Saturday. “We were told, I think, or we were assuming, that we would play a Baylor or a Kansas, or – one of the top teams from the Big 12, a Houston. … That was never something that we were told and then they flipped it on us, at least from my standpoint.”

“We are in conversations with Kansas to do a two-year, potentially, or a four-year home-and-home type of thing,” he said. “They’ve been communicating pretty openly with us about potentially doing that. I don’t think that they tried to avoid the game.”

Dan Hurley denies idea that Kansas avoided UConn this season, says home-and-home series could be in works

Dan Hurley revealed that the UConn men’s basketball program has been in conversations about a potential home-and-home series with fellow blue-blood Kansas.

www.courant.com

Alternate access:
Dan Hurley denies idea that Kansas avoided UConn this season, says home-and-home series could be in works

 

[HooperScooper]

Norlander talked about this on his podcast, Kansas backed out due to travel

Self is denying that.

Previously, coach Bill Self denied his involvement in avoiding any non-conference road-games scheduling choices. “I’ve never heard that. My scheduler never shared that with me.” This was after some of the sources claimed Self “clearly didn’t want it.”

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The article quotes Mark Zannetto from his podcast. Does he really have sources at UConn? I'm just wondering why there are a lot of articles (e.g. the SI ones on recruiting) that quote him. Seems anyone can have a podcast these days but just having a podcast doesn't make you a legitimate source.

 

[CTBasketball]

Self is denying that.

Previously, coach Bill Self denied his involvement in avoiding any non-conference road-games scheduling choices. “I’ve never heard that. My scheduler never shared that with me.” This was after some of the sources claimed Self “clearly didn’t want it.”

UConn Leaves Bill Self Cornered as Dan Hurley Hunts Relentlessly for No.1 NCAA Crown​

The article quotes Mark Zannetto from his podcast. Does he really have sources at UConn? I'm just wondering why there are a lot of articles (e.g. the SI ones on recruiting) that quote him. Seems anyone can have a podcast these days but just having a podcast doesn't make you a legitimate source.

They were too busy getting blasted at Creighton.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Six game series.
We get three home games:
Gampel
XL
MSG

All 3 need to be in Connecticut. End of story

 

[WestHartHusk]

These discussions don’t suggest a Big12 invite is in the mail.

 

[AntG168]

Would love:

Year one: Lawrence
Year two: Storrs
Year three: Kansas City
Year four: MSG

Nah year one is in Storrs

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Would love:

Year one: Lawrence
Year two: Storrs
Year three: Kansas City
Year four: Hartford
Year Five: MSG

Fixed it for you

 

[Kolumbo]

Sure we'll do home and homes. And every game will be played on courts with big fat XIIs painted on them.

 

[CT2SC]

Why would we need to do that???

Exactly. These games should be Storrs and Lawrence period. Why play in Kansas City instead of one of the most iconic arenas in the sport? And why go out of state to MSG for our “home” game?

 

[CL82]

Would love:

Year one: Lawrence
Year two: Storrs
Year three: Kansas City
Year four: MSG

I would rather flip those given that they just blew off a game at Storrs.

 

[ted920]

Would love:

Year one: Lawrence
Year two: Storrs
Year three: Kansas City
Year four: MSG

Year 1 should be Storrs.
We went to Lawrence last year and they ducked us this year. We should not play twice in Lawrence before they play at UCONN.
REMEMBER UCONN is a Blue Blood and we take a back seat to ABSOLUTELY NO ONE!!!

 

[HuskyHawk]

“I was never told I was playing Kansas,” Hurley clarified Saturday. “We were told, I think, or we were assuming, that we would play a Baylor or a Kansas, or – one of the top teams from the Big 12, a Houston. … That was never something that we were told and then they flipped it on us, at least from my standpoint.”

“We are in conversations with Kansas to do a two-year, potentially, or a four-year home-and-home type of thing,” he said. “They’ve been communicating pretty openly with us about potentially doing that. I don’t think that they tried to avoid the game.”

Dan Hurley denies idea that Kansas avoided UConn this season, says home-and-home series could be in works

Dan Hurley revealed that the UConn men’s basketball program has been in conversations about a potential home-and-home series with fellow blue-blood Kansas.

www.courant.com

Alternate access:
Dan Hurley denies idea that Kansas avoided UConn this season, says home-and-home series could be in works

Yeah, I don't know where Norlander got that, but in the history of the challenge no team has ever played the same team in back to back years. It's not how it works. I'm sure the conferences thought it might be cool to do it. It's more likely that the other teams in the Big XII would be pissed because they want a chance to play UConn. Playing at Creighton isn't fun as KU found out.

Would obviously be thrilled if we had a home and home with Kansas. I suggested here last year that if UConn fans showed up in Lawrence last November, KU would be interested in a home and home series. We definitely did that, really impressive showing.

 

[HuskyBoi]

One year in Lawrence, one year in Storrs.
And then one year in MSG, one year in Lawrence Regional Airport

 

[Drew]

These discussions don’t suggest a Big12 invite is in the mail.

Just to be devils advocate here, there were games scheduled between the old PAC 12 and new Big 12 teams in football which obviously didn’t prevent that from happening. Arizona @ Kansas State and Baylor @ Utah this year were both non-conference games

 

[lateralous]

Exactly. These games should be Storrs and Lawrence period. Why play in Kansas City instead of one of the most iconic arenas in the sport? And why go out of state to MSG for our “home” game?

Agreed. It sucked losing in Lawrence last year but that game in Allen Fieldhouse had an amazing buzz and environment. Gampel can be similar for big games. Why go anywhere else when you can play in those two facilities?