Dan Hurley has led Rhode Island and now Connecticut to five NCAA Tournament appearances in seven years. The Huskies face Miami in the Final Four.
In a basketball-crazed family – Bob Sr. is in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, and Bobby is now the head coach at Arizona State – coaching in the Final Four will be something of a milestone.And as far as Dan is concerned, it all started with dad.
"I liken it to getting an education in basketball," said Westwood One analyst P.J. Carlesimo, one of the coaches who made those visits. "There’s no question in my mind that Danny and Bobby competed and looked at each other, whatever it may be," said Wagner vice president for intercollegiate athletics Walt Hameline, who first hired Dan as a college head coach in 2010.
Mason described Bobby and Dan as"legit best friends." So it came as no surprise that, when Wagner hired Dan straight out of the high school ranks in 2010, he turned and hired Bobby as an assistant – his first coaching job at any level.
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