UConn’s Hurley rewarded with brand-new six-year offer

• Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 22, 2023, 07:46 AM ET Close

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After leading Connecticut to a nationwide title, Dan Hurley has actually accepted a brand-new six-year contract, the school announced Thursday.Sources informed ESPN that the brand-new offer guarantees Hurley nearly$ 33 million, putting him among the highest-paid coaches in men’s basketball. The new agreement goes through the 2028-29 season and consists of incentives for athletic and scholastic success that might push the full value of the offer even higher.Hurley, who established a credibility as one of the nation’s top

program-builders at Wagner, Rhode Island and UConn, reanimated a Huskies program that had actually fallen under irrelevancy. After restoring UConn as a Big East power upon the school’s reentry into the conference in 2020, Hurley provided the program’s 5th championship game with a dominant March run that culminated with a title victory over San Diego State in April.Editor’s Picks”I am enjoyed have Dan Hurley leading our guys’s basketball program,” athletic director David Benedict stated in

a statement. “The work he and his personnel have done over the past five years in rebuilding our program, which culminated in the Huskies as soon as again reaching the pinnacle of college basketball, has been nothing short of impressive. I understand all of UConn Country is happy that Dan will continue to lead this program for the foreseeable future.”In spite of losing 3 players anticipated to be picked in Thursday’s NBA draft– guards Jordan Hawkins and Andre Jackson Jr. and center Adama Sanogo– the Huskies are expected

to be a preseason top-10 team once again in 2023-24. UConn has 2 sophomore 2024 first-round choices in center Donovan Clingan and forward Alex Karaban. “I want to thank the players and personnel who helped make this climb possible. Coaching at the University of Connecticut is an honor and we mean to build on our success as one of the premier programs in college basketball,” Hurley stated in a statement.In his five seasons at UConn, Hurley has gone 104-55(.654)and reached the NCAA competition in three successive seasons. He is 255-160(.614) in 13 Division I seasons because ending up a nine-year run as a high school coach at St. Benedict’s Preparation in Newark, New Jersey.Hurley becomes part of one of the most famous training families in basketball, including his daddy, Naismith Hall of Famer Bob Hurley Sr., the retired coach at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, and older bro, Bobby, the coach at Arizona State.