“His dirty dragon underwear”: Wife Andrea reveals UConn HC Dan Hurley’s peculiar superstition
Dan Hurley is known to be a man with many superstitions. From his red underwear to the M&M's, and lucky socks, coach Hurley has his own routine for every game. In the “UConn Confidential: Back to Back” documentary, the coach's wife, Andrea Hurley, spoke of the red dragon underwear and how she keeps it clean for back-to-back games.
"If we win the first game and there's a second game in the same location, we have to clean the underwear," she said. "The lucky socks, this guy's been going for years and years and years. And here they are: his dirty dragon underwear. They've got a lot of wins in them now. In they go."
She also posted the interview on Friday to her Instagram story.
Dan Hurley had previously talked about this, revealing that his wife and her portable washer were integral parts of his back-to-back championship success. In an interview for 'wbur', UConn's coach explained his reasons behind the superstitions.
“A lot of the superstition things, the M&Ms and the clothes, it’s almost like you’re putting on armor," he said. "It’s almost like watching Rafa Nadal before he serves. He goes through this weird process of things that settles him before he serves the ball.
"It just kind of takes my mind away from thinking about all the bad things that could happen over the course of the next couple hours.”
Dan Hurley explains his obsession with winning
With the 2024 NCAA championship, Dan Hurley and the UConn Huskies joined a small club of nine teams with back-to-back championships. However, they refuse to stop with this as their goal now is the three-peat. If Hurley leads the Huskies to another title, they will only be the second program in history to achieve it (UCLA won seven straight between 1967 and 1973).
During his chat with the press on the Big East media day (Oct. 23), Dan Hurley spoke on his consistent hunger to never settle down.
"I probably mentioned it in the recruiting process to the transfers. The season that we’re going to embark on is going to be rare in terms of what we can accomplish to join those UCLA teams from a historical opportunity and how you can’t give everything that you absolutely have to reach that level in sport," coach Hurley said.
"I owe it to the people that invest in me and invest in these players to literally drive the people around to you places that they don’t think they can get to in such a pathological, sick, obsessive way that you’re just pursuing championships so friggin hard," he added.
The UConn Huskies will begin the season on Nov. 6 against Sacred Heart.
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