{"id":157078,"date":"2019-12-11T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=157078"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:22:03","slug":"dan-hurley-talks-uconn-basketball-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/12\/dan-hurley-talks-uconn-basketball-msg\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hurley Talks UConn Basketball, MSG, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Most fans know that Huskies men\u2019s basketball coach Dan Hurley has established a reputation as a coach who can rebuild struggling programs and return them to winning ways. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a member of one of the nation\u2019s best-known basketball families, Dan Hurley grew up with the game in New Jersey. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His father, Bob Senior, is a legendary Hall of Fame coach who guided the powerhouse St. Anthony\u2019s High School team in New Jersey, where he won 26 state championships in 39 years, only the 10<sup>th<\/sup> high school coach to win 1,000 games. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His older brother Bobby was an All-American and two-time National Champion player at Duke, who played for five years in the NBA and now is the head coach at Arizona State, after serving as an assistant coach to Dan at both Wagner College and The University of Rhode Island. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As he prepared for his second season leading the men\u2019s basketball team, Coach Hurley spoke with UConn 360 about his approach to improving a team, what he learned as a high school coach that helps him coaching at the college level, his expectations for team leadership on the floor and his own experience walking into Madison Square Garden for the first time as a player.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this extended interview from the UConn 360 podcast, Hurley reflects on the journey that&#8217;s taken him to Storrs.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-157078-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAN-HURLEY-MENS-BASKETBALL-MASTER2-EDIT-UCONN-TODAY.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAN-HURLEY-MENS-BASKETBALL-MASTER2-EDIT-UCONN-TODAY.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DAN-HURLEY-MENS-BASKETBALL-MASTER2-EDIT-UCONN-TODAY.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball coach Dan Hurley reflects on the journey that took him from a legendary New Jersey basketball family to Gampel Pavilion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":157089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2141,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1918],"class_list":["post-157078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-podcast","category-uconn-storrs","series-heard-here-uconn-360"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 06:14:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157090,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157078\/revisions\/157090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/157089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157078"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=157078"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=157078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}