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UConn men looking to play ‘championship-worthy basketball’ and get one step closer to regular season title at DePaul
“The benefit for us is this time of year you have to be playing championship-worthy basketball if you want to pursue championships at this point. There’s a ton to gain by winning and playing to the standard,” Hurley said. “And we look around college basketball and see just teams in general struggling on the road or in conference games period, so it’s a chance to get another road win.”
“Playing those big, high-level games is not going to affect your seeding a great deal if you’re unsuccessful, whereas these types of games, the Quad 3/Quad 4 road games, they’re brutal games to play because they’re loseable games and they could potentially wreck months of great work,” Hurley said. “And then the human nature piece with your team and with young people, especially when it’s been so long since you’ve lost a game.
“Just really trying to hammer that home to our players: If we stray from what we do, if we get away from our identity, we’re as vulnerable as any team in the country.”
“The benefit for us is this time of year you have to be playing championship-worthy basketball if you want to pursue championships at this point. There’s a ton to gain by winning and playing to the standard,” Hurley said. “And we look around college basketball and see just teams in general struggling on the road or in conference games period, so it’s a chance to get another road win.”
“Playing those big, high-level games is not going to affect your seeding a great deal if you’re unsuccessful, whereas these types of games, the Quad 3/Quad 4 road games, they’re brutal games to play because they’re loseable games and they could potentially wreck months of great work,” Hurley said. “And then the human nature piece with your team and with young people, especially when it’s been so long since you’ve lost a game.
“Just really trying to hammer that home to our players: If we stray from what we do, if we get away from our identity, we’re as vulnerable as any team in the country.”
