PhotoThe University of Connecticut has hired Dan Hurley as its next men’s basketball coach, hoping to turn the page on the coaching tenure of Kevin Ollie, which began with a national championship but ended with an N.C.A.A. Hurley spent the previous six seasons as Rhode Island’s head coach, and the two before that as the head coach at Wagner, on Staten Island. Hurley is the son of Bob Hurley, formerly the longtime coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, and the younger brother of Bobby Hurley, a college star at Duke who is now the head coach at Arizona State. “I look forward to continuing this proud tradition.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe UConn men’s program was largely overlooked and unaccomplished until Jim Calhoun took over in the mid-1980s. The former Big East, of which the university had been a charter member, had splintered, and unlike several other historic Big East members who either landed in the Atlantic Coast Conference or a newer, football-less Big East, UConn has arguably struggled to recruit in the A.A.C.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2018 20:26 UTC