RALEIGH—All week since arriving for this year’s men’s NCAA tournament, UConn Huskies coach Dan Hurley has been in a reflective mood away from the court, as if he were a veteran, highly paid history professor who sat his glasses down on the dais to wax poetic about the past.
After every diatribe about his team’s run the past two seasons, which saw them wind up as national champions, he would end with a warning delivered with nary a smile.
