UConn ‘Went Out on Our Shield,’ But Hurley Remains to Fight On
Brendan Marks The New York Times - Mercoledì 8 aprile 2026 Pagina 31 INDIANAPOLIS — There are no words for moments like these. Or at least none that Dan Hurley, the men’s basketball coach at Connecticut, prepared. But minutes after the game was over — after the confetti rained down at Lucas Oil Stadium, celebrating Michigan’s 69-63 national championship win over UConn — Hurley had to say something. There’s no stopping the hurt when you finish second, not on the final Monday night of the college basketball season. But it is a coach’s duty to at least dress the wound. To saddle up next to Alex Karaban, who won 126 games with UConn in four years, including two national championships, and pull him in tight on a walk down a back tunnel. To whisper the only thing that could maybe, possibly, transcend the magnitude of a career-ending loss: “You know I love you, man. ” There is much to love: not just about this one game, or season, but everything Karaban has represented for UConn over the past...