UConn's Dan Hurley earns Saint Francis Award at Franciscan Sports Banquet: 'Faith has been my rock'

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Jim Calhoun comments are worth the read:



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[Hurley] also noted that he still can't win a close game. "What we've decided to do is just blow people out."

 

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Would be nice if they recorded and posted his speech….

 

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Courant article from the event.

Hurley and his staff have also been out recruiting, targeting elite players. Last week Darius Acuff Jr., the top-ranked point guard in the Class of 2025, told Zagsblog.com he plans to visit UConn, among other “blue bloods.”

“We’re not going to stray from what’s gotten us here,” Hurley said, “from the type of player and person we want, but people really love watching our team. The way we play, the NBA opportunities, winning, it’s all pretty appealing.”

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Another article from the event on the 4 sophomores making a leap in improvement. Probably deserves to be in a different thread or it's own but....

"We believe that those freshmen-to-sophomores can become real impact players," coach Dan Hurley said on Tuesday night, after being feted with the Saint Francis Award at the Franciscan Sports Banquet at Aqua Turf Club, "because we really like what we're supplementing them with with freshmen and transfers. But, a lot of this year is going to come down to our confidence that those guys are going to be really good."

Are Stewart and Ross, both 3/4 combos, and Ball, more of a shooting guard, ready for this perhaps unexpected influx of competition at their respective positions?'

"They are," Hurley stated, confidently. "You think about the environment they were just in, practicing against Cam Spencer. Practicing against Donovan (Clingan) and Steph Castle, Tristen (Newton), going against that first unit with AK every day. They had the misfortune last year of being on an historic time, how good we were. It became tough to get consistent minutes on a team that good. But we believed in what we saw, from a practice standpoint."

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