Storrs, Connecticut – UConn coach Dan Hurley, acknowledged that “he wish not to do”, since he expressed his regret for making profane comments about the trade after the defeat of the NCAA of the Huskies NCAA tournament against Florida on Sunday.
UConn's offer for a third consecutive national title ended with a 77-75 defeat against the best sown gators in the second round.
As he left the floor, Hurley was caught by a camera by a media member who told Baylor's players while preparing for his game: “I hope they don't do it, you like to have encouraged us,” reference to the officers.
On Wednesday, often burning Hurley reflected on what happened.
“Those are three great officials in that game, so, although I said something in the heat of the moment, in an area of the sand that in almost all the games that I have trained in the university has been free of media,” Hurley told journalists. “Beyond the tunnel, next to the changing rooms, in the hallway where the coaches go, that is for the fighters, that is for the competitors. That is not for camera phones. Only in relation to that, those were three great referees and Florida won it.
“If I do not leave the rails at the end there, after that three -year race ended unbearable … If I don't have that emotional outburst there, probably everything people are talking about is the race we have had, incredible players.”
Joey Ellis de Queen City News published a video of what Hurley said. Charlotte Sports Live reported that Uconn's male basketball communications, Bobby Mullen, asked Ellis to eliminate the video and then made a threatening comment. Later, Ellis said on the social networks that Mullen apologized to him.
“Bobby regrets, just as I regret the moments I have had. Obviously, everything is my fault that Bobby was pushed,” Hurley told journalists. “I put the whole matter in motion and I feel horrible. Obviously I could have handled the deal with the media person with the phone that took the video [differently]Obviously, I could have let it go. It should have been better trained for a situation like this, we have been in them all year.
“But Bobby is a soldier. We all fight like this for our program, and sometimes we go a little too far. But Bobby is a great guy.”
That limited a season in which Hurley had several other incidents, since he was heated the complaints with the Maui Classic officials to making fun of a fan after a victory in Creighton.
“This is what Uconn knew they were getting, this is how I have obviously trained my career, and I am not boasting of that, I am surprised that people have discovered it if they are experts in university basketball,” he told journalists. “It is one of those things in which, they are mistakes, there are things that I would like to do, it is part of what you get with me. I hope not to do it again. I will try to take measures both internally, mentally and externally … I would not change an aspect of how I will train a game or how hard we fight. [But] I would like to go up and leave the court without incident. “
Associated Press's information was used in this report.
