If UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley knew when to rein it in, knew how to control his passion, knew when to sit down and put a sock in it, the Huskies wouldn’t be where they are today.
The Huskies wouldn’t be basking in glow of the biggest victory for men’s basketball since 2014, a 71-69 thriller over Villanova. They wouldn’t be rising in the Big East and the national rankings, and they wouldn’t have brought the madness back to Connecticut with March still a week away.
UConn brought Hurley here four years ago to re-ignite a fire. What we witnessed at the XL Center on Tuesday night was a roaring inferno, not the final step by any means, but the crowd, the atmosphere and the level at which the Huskies played is all that Hurley has been building these last four years.
