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The 2024 faculty basketball season is about to start … and Dan Hurley tells TMZ Sports activities his UConn program is operating at a “tremendous excessive degree” of confidence as they put together for a three-peat!!
The 51-year-old head coach was out greeting followers in New York Metropolis … a pair weeks earlier than the Huskies’ first common season recreation on November 6 in Storrs, Connecticut.
All eyes are on the back-to-back NCAA champions main into the 2024-25 season … and Hurley — who determined to stick with UConn as an alternative of becoming a member of the Los Angeles Lakers — talked about their latest success has elevated the crew’s self-assurance, which will likely be essential as they attempt to defend their title but once more.
“I feel we’re much more pressing to maintain this system the place it’s, you understand, however now we obtained a brilliant excessive degree of confidence,” Hurley stated.
“So, we’re much more pressing than ever, however the confidence is now excessive.”
Actually, Hurley in contrast their want for a three-peat to needing oxygen … that is how badly they need it.
The Huskies can be the primary faculty hoops crew to tug it off for the reason that historic John Wood-led UCLA squads did it within the ’60s and early ’70s.
Evidently … Hurley believes the Huskies can do exactly that.