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The 2024 school basketball season is about to start … and Dan Hurley tells TMZ Sports activities his UConn program is working at a “super high level” 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 sport 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 current success has elevated the workforce’s self-assurance, which can be essential as they attempt to defend their title but once more.
“I think we’re even more urgent to keep the program where it is, you know, but now we got a super high level of confidence,” Hurley mentioned.
“So, we’re even more urgent than ever, but the confidence is now high.”
In actual fact, Hurley in contrast their need for a three-peat to needing oxygen … that is how badly they need it.
The Huskies can be the primary school hoops workforce to tug it off for the reason that historic John Wood-led UCLA squads did it within the ’60s and early ’70s.
For sure … Hurley believes the Huskies can just do that.
