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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 5302135, member: 10"] Interesting after Martelli Jr. complained that UConn wouldn't play them. Maybe Hurley figured we'll throw them a bone now that Martelli is gone. Bryant was very good last year. No idea what they look like for this coming season. [I]But [URL='https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/_/id/2803/bryant-bulldogs']Bryant University[/URL] head coach [URL='https://www.bryantbulldogs.com/sports/mbkb/Coaches/Phil_Martelli_Jr']Phil Martelli Jr.[/URL] made some noise on Monday for suggesting the Huskies may not have wanted to play his team. In answering a question about scheduling difficulties following Bryant’s win over Division III Springfield College, Martelli appeared to call out the Huskies. “It’s hard. You have certain dates that you’re trying to fill. We were trying to fill this date, and there’s a team up the road that played tonight, who won a lot of games last year that we were trying to go to. They picked a different team in our league to play tonight,” Martelli told reporters, adding that he was talking about a “high-major” team.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.courant.com/2023/11/28/bryant-head-coach-suggests-uconn-men-declined-to-play-his-team/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/12/uconns-dan-hurley-claps-back-at-bryant-on-scheduling-says-huskies-would-play-duke-in-a-home-and-home.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]