WATCH: Dan Hurley’s wife Andrea shares moments from the unveiling of championship banner before Sacred Heart clash

With the 2024 NCAA championship, Dan Hurley and his UConn Huskies joined the small club of programs that have won the title back-to-back. The Huskies played their season opener on Wednesday against Sacred Heart, and before the tip-off, the championship banner was unveiled in the rafters of the Gampel Pavilion.

Dan Hurley's wife, Andrea, shared the video from the ceremony on her Instagram with the caption:

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"Another season, another banner 🐺🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆"

The Huskies beat the Pioneers 92-56, with strong performances from Liam McNeeley, Alex Karaban, Solo Ball and Tarris Reed Jr.

Besides UConn, Oklahoma State, Kentucky, San Francisco, Cincinnati, UCLA, Duke and Florida are the only other teams to win two consecutive championships. Of these, UCLA is the only team to go further, as it won the NCAA title seven times in a row.

Huskies coach Dan Hurley has said that going for a three-peat is his goal for the 2024-25 season and join John Wooden and the Bruins in achieving the feat. He spoke about it during the Big East Media Day in October.

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"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," 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."

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Dan Hurley calls being a coach's wife a tough job

During an interview with Jim Tressel on his "It's All About the Team" show, Dan Hurley pointed out the role his mother, Christine, played in helping his father and his career as a coach at St. Anthony's High School.

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"Being a coach's wife is not an easy task, being the mother of a high achieving person that's striving and pushing is, it's a critical role just for that perspective and just for a normal relationship is, you know, critical because we're so dialed in," Hurley said.

Andrea Hurley also spoke about the part she plays in making her husband's job a little easier during an interview with WTNH.

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“When you figure out how you could help your other half get better at what he does, and you see it come back to you,” she said. “It’s a friendship. It’s working together as a team. I try to make his life easier in any way that I possibly can."

Dan Hurley will lead his program on one of its toughest runs as the Huskies are set to take on teams like Alabama and Kansas, who have all stacked their rosters with immense talent.

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