Dan Hurley and the UConn Huskies’ last-second Elite Eight win over Duke saw wild celebrations, a head-to-head altercation between the UConn head coach and a referee, and Hurley in a towel, which cracked up sportscaster Urban Meyer.
Yes, Dan Hurley in a towel! In a video during UConn’s celebrations, Hurley was seen in the locker room with just a towel underneath his shirt. As he was about to give a speech to the players after the win, and just as he dropped the f-bomb like he usually does, UConn players drenched their coach with water. But why was Hurley in a towel? He himself shared the reason.
“You gonna ask me about why I was wearing a Towel?” Hurley said on ‘The Triple Option’ podcast.
“Gotta let that thing breathe sometimes,” Mark Ingram II joked.
Urban Meyer, Ingram II, and Rob Stone laughed as Hurley continued to explain the reason behind the towel in the locker room.
“I am a quirky man. I got some of the things with like just wearing the same thing, you know, when you wear sport coat, right? All that. So, I got the suit. I got that whole thing. So, the suit, the dress shirt, belt, shoes, socks, and my draws, my underwear, with the Dragons on them. They’re 18-1 in NCAA tournament games,” Hurley said, and recalled that the only game they lost was vs Florida last year, in which UConn played great.”
“There were a couple of things. You know, you’re gonna get soaked. I didn’t want. I wanted to preserve the suit because it’s starting to fall apart,” Hurley revealed he bought that suit when he was at Rhode Island, so his lucky outfit is getting too old to preserve.
“I got my lucky underwear, which I knew I had to wear into the press room. So, I wanted to preserve the pants and my underwear. I didn’t want them soaking wet. Then, I go sit on the seat. My ass is wet. I didn’t want to do that. So, I just said, “Uh, let me just go do this.” But then the underwear, they were wet from the game anyway because you’re sweating, right?” he added.
At this point, Urban Meyer interrupted Hurley and jokingly said:
“We’re getting a lot of information here.”
Long list of Dan Hurley’s superstitions
From his Game of Thrones-theme dragon underwear to the lucky suit, there are many superstitions that Dan Hurley follows without fail. His rituals include eating exactly eight M&Ms. One key thing he focuses on is that he avoids the opponent’s colors.
Hurley doesn’t allow his team to eat turkey on Thanksgiving if UConn has a game scheduled near that time. He has also often used garlic or lighting sage in the locker room in order to appease the apparent “basketball gods.”
The methods might sound insane, but UConn is set to play its third Final Four in the last four years. Two of those years, UConn was crowned champions. If it works, it works!
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