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2024 NCAA tournament & bracket discussion

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'I am an obsessed coach': How Dan Hurley became the face of UConn

The Huskies have run roughshod over college basketball for two straight seasons. Their next stage will be the Final Four.
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'I am an obsessed coach': How Dan Hurley became the face of UConn​

The Final Four bid already puts Hurley among the most prominent faces in the sport. And with top-seeded UConn headed to Glendale, Arizona, as the prohibitive favorite to repeat as national champion, Hurley suddenly finds himself on the cusp of elite company in a sport that has seen legends fleeing the sidelines.

Consider that if UConn were to win two games in Arizona, Hurley would join Bill Self and Rick Pitino as the only active coaches to have won two NCAA tournaments. With the retirement of Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Jay Wright in recent years, Hurley has ridden a pair of transcendent teams into rare air in the coaching space.

"If I am one of those [faces of the sport], I'm probably a good one because I'm authentic, and I am who I am," he said. "I'm basically a high school coach that's like masquerading up at this college level. I don't really care what people necessarily think of my intensity, it obviously shows up the right way with my team. We don't cheat, we don't lie. I think we're about all the right things. Just, at times, I'm an a--hole."

Hurley acknowledged that UConn will head to Arizona as the villain, which he said the fan base's "obnoxious" nature accentuates. "So everyone hates us," he said.

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Plane issues delay UConn men's arrival in Arizona

The UConn men's basketball team left for the Final Four in Arizona early Thursday after a confluence of issues delayed its trip out of Connecticut.
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UConn men's team delayed to Final Four after plane issues​

The UConn men's basketball team left for the Final Four in Arizona early Thursday after a confluence of issues delayed its trip out of Connecticut.

The Huskies finally took off from Bradley International Airport near Hartford at about 1:30 a.m. ET. UConn's flight originally was scheduled to leave at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, but the departure was delayed to about 11:30 p.m. because of mechanical issues, the NCAA said in a statement. Coach Dan Hurley took to social media around 1 a.m. to say the plane had not yet taken off.

Following the nearly five-hour flight in a smaller Allegiant Air plane, the team arrived at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix at about 3:15 a.m. local time.



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NC St was unlucky their starting PG O'Connell injured himself driving on a fastbreak. He appeared to have caught his toe on the court and stumbled. Not only did he turn the ball over on the transition opportunity, he was hobbled the remainder of the half and clearly unable to perform as usual. We'll see if he's able to play the second half.
 
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