Dan Hurley: Uconn ‘deserves the 8-seed’ after a rocky season

Raleigh, NC-es was a rocky season for the two-time defending champion, but when Uconn take his first steps towards a third national championship in a row, head coach Dan Hurley believes that his team could benefit from rough path to the NCAA tournament.

Hurley said that after an ugly November performance at the Maui Invitational and Mixed results in the entire Big East Play, “the 8-seeds deserve”, but these fights made Uconn a potential Cinderella story and stare against Oklahoma with his Friday.

“I have a strange feeling that it is a little pressure from us, that we go to the tournament where we just go out and let it rip,” said Hurley, before Uconn’s shootaround on Thursdays. “We don’t have this great pressure of expectations. Many people don’t believe that we will win the first game.”

Hurley called the Matchup with the Sooners “A Hundkampf”, but said that he thinks this year’s crew, in contrast to the last two seasons, when Uconn started as a tournament favorite, is better prepared for hard games.

“We are more tested, only went through,” said Hurley and recorded the path of the huskies from a 4: 3 start to the win of the signatures against Baylor, Texas and Gonzaga in the following route.

Uconn enters the tournament with 23-10 and the eighth of the worst sowing is sowing when he has done the tournament since 2016 when the huskies lost in the second round under the former coach Kevin Ollie against Kansas.

The striker Alex Karaban has distributed some of the problems of this season to injuries, but he said Uconn’s approach has not fluctuated from what this program has brought to the mountain summit in the past two years. What is different this time, he said that the huskies don’t play as if they had a goal on their back.

“I don’t think there is pressure at all,” said Karaban. “After we have done that we have no pressure this year in the past two years. This is a completely different team. We have made a completely different trip. We only want to carry the jersey with honor and pride. If we do it, everything can happen if you play at Uconn.”