UCONN head coach Dan Hurley could not maintain again his feelings after his crew’s defeat to Florida on Sunday.

The Huskies fell within the second spherical of the NCAA Match’s March Insanity, dropping 77-75 to the Gators in a back-and-forth contest.

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Hurley’s squad wasn’t a championship favourite after winning-to-back NCAA titles.

Nonetheless, all through the marketing campaign, the 52-year-old usually confirmed his quick-tempered and brash nature.

After the loss to the No. 1 seeded Florida, Hurley was tearful in his postgame interview with CBS’s Tracy Wolfson as he mentioned his crew and Florida.

“I assumed we performed with super honor. I assumed we performed with the center of a championship program,” Hurley advised Wolfson.

“Clearly a worthy opponent like that, there’s honor in the best way we went out.”

Wolfson then requested Hurley what his message was to his UConn crew, and he obtained emotional once more.

“Simply love them, I simply love them,” Hurley mentioned. “This yr’s been an actual battle, we have battled.

“At occasions I do not assume we favored one another a complete lot with a few of the issues we needed to undergo collectively.

“However I do not assume I will ever love a crew greater than how laborious they fought for what we had been attempting to perform and for the dignity they performed with immediately.”

Whereas Hurley’s touching second went viral, he was additionally criticized by followers for being irate concerning the officiating in his crew’s failed pursuit of a three-peat.

A video on X displayed UConn exiting the court docket into the tunnel when Hurley shouted a profane message.

“I hope they do not f*** you just like the f***ed us. I actually hope they do not do this to you, Baylor,” he mentioned to Baylor gamers as they ready to take the ground for his or her matchup with Duke.

Florida took 34 foul photographs and made 22 of them whereas UConn acquired 22 foul photographs and swished 19.

Followers did not maintain again on Hurley for his tunnel second.

“There’s not a extra unbearable cry child in basketball,” one commented.

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“Classless. So glad that we do not have to see any extra of that lunatic this event,” one other wrote.

“It’s at all times another person’s fault with this man,” a 3rd added.

It was Hurley and this system’s first NCAA event loss in 1,102 days.

They’ll now watch Florida tackle Maryland within the Candy 16 on Thursday evening.