Hurley's biggest challenge next season

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Hate to say it, but I'll go with, "staying as interested". Love my Huskies and will watch every game next season, but based on who we have coming back plus Nowell & Abraham, I don't see a team that will challenge for an NC.

Everyone said the same thing before this season about this team. We were picked to finish fourth in the Big East. Hurley keeps harping on that at nearly every press conference .
At this point, you have to trust and believe Dan Hurley and his staff know exactly what they need and want.

 

[uconndogs]

I'm going to go our on a limb here a say that Hurley's biggest challenge for next season will be replacing four starters likely to be taken in the upcoming NBA draft and a perfect fit in Spencer. I don't know how you reload that much talent and experience.....

 

[storrsroars]

Everyone said the same thing before this season about this team. We were picked to finish fourth in the Big East. Hurley keeps harping on that at nearly every press conference .
At this point, you have to trust and believe Dan Hurley and his staff know exactly what they need and want.

"Everyone" didn't include me. I did wonder if Clingan would be as effective if he doubled his minutes, but I was never concerned about getting this far given the other experience coming back.

Maybe Dan Hurley can get someone we're not thinking of to continue the "two headed center beast" for next season, but without that, I see a tourney team, but not one going to the third weekend.

 

[UCan3]

I think the challenge will be - we have a lot of quality players sitting on the bench. We obviously need to hit the portal hard. When we do this, retaining those who feel like they’ve “paid their dues” and don‘t want to share PT or compete for their position will be a challenge.

Also from a scoring perspective, we will lose most of scorers and even making the tourney next year is not guaranteed. Seeing the Big East was hosed with 3 invites, may be tough to make it with a 20-22 win season - that isn’t right btw - but sad reality.