Entering the season UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley thought it would take time for his relatively new team to form a competitive cohesion that translated into winning. Unranked in the preseason poll, likely because of the same uncertainty, the UConn men have made an eager leap into the No. 8 spot after an 8-0 start.
“My fear was that we would maybe struggle in some of these bigger nonconference games and then get demoralized going into the Big East calendar,” Hurley said. “We knew the potential was there with the group in terms of what the quality could be at some point.”
The Huskies added four transfers and two freshmen who have all made significant contributions in the early going as the group carried a chip on its preseason unranked shoulder.
