A Northeast corridor to greatness COVID-19 shutdown puts start of season in doubt
Hurley, UConn are turning vision to reality 1 recruiting class at a time
When Dan Hurley took over as UConn coach in 2018 the Huskies were coming off two losing seasons. Hurley added another with his first team, built almost entirely on players he inherited.
One sub-.500 campaign and another and another, this 2016-19 chapter was threatening to become the first bricks in a wall stretching across the bottom of the American Athletic Conference, one the best young players in the Northeast might have eventually found difficult to see over.
How far removed from the glory days, even if they are yesterday to most of us, does a program have to be for elite teenage players to dismiss a brand of diminishing power? To what extent are 2014, or any of the previous three national championship runs, relevant
By Dom Amore
The UConn men remain in quarantine, limited to two players at a time — roommates only, opposite ends of the court, one basketball in use. No coaches can be involved.
This is not a place any coach wants to be with the scheduled start of the season less than two weeks away.
“There’s a level of anxiety coaches and players all share right now about our ability to be prepared for opening night,” Hurley said Thursday, on a Zoom call with state reporters. “Not just to play well, but just to be in the type of physical condition for a player to be safe to go out on game night after missing so much time.”
The Huskies had to shut down after a player tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 5. Hurley, speaking from his office in the Werth Family Center, could not say who or how many players, or “tier-1 personnel, which includes coaches and staff, tested