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The 2024 faculty basketball season is about to start … and Dan Hurley tells TMZ Sports activities his UConn program is working 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 workforce’s self-assurance, which might be essential as they attempt to defend their title but once more.
“I believe we’re much more pressing to maintain this system the place it’s, you realize, however now we received an excellent excessive degree of confidence,” Hurley stated.
“So, we’re much more pressing than ever, however the confidence is now excessive.”
In reality, 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 workforce to tug it off for the reason that historic John Picket-led UCLA squads did it within the ’60s and early ’70s.
For sure … Hurley believes the Huskies can do exactly that.
