UConns Dan Hurley rants over refs for second straight game after egregious call in loss

Dan Hurley was at it again. The UConn basketball coach found himself complaining about the refs for the second day in a row after the Huskies lost a nailbiter to Colorado in the Maui Invitational on Tuesday night.UConn dropped consecutive games for the first time since 2022 when they were upset by the Buffaloes 73-72. Hurley found himself angered over an offensive rebound pulled down by Colorado’s Trevor Baskin over Liam McNeely with 24 seconds left in the game. McNeely had been called for an over-the-back foul on Monday against Memphis in the same exact spot, which resulted in a controversial turn of events.“It has a big impact, obviously, on the game.If it’s called an over the back we obviously go to the free throw line,” Hurley said about the play, which came with the Huskies leading 72-71.

“Maybe we’re shooting a one-and-one.I don’t even know what the foul situation was at the time.

Just speaks to how these last two days have gone for us.Yesterday, the biggest play of the game was an over-the-back that was called against us.

Then today it was more egregious because of the kid — Baskin — pulled Liam’s arm down.I saw the replay of it.

It’s ironic.” Hurley did go on to add that his team’s defense had been the bigger issue in the end. The rebound by Baskin led to the Buffaloes being able to call a time-out with 20 seconds left in the game. Hurley had to be restrained by assistant Kimani Young during the timeout as he was fuming at what had just transpired.Andrej Jakimovski managed to make the go-ahead bucket with eight seconds left to lift Colorado to a win. On Monday night, Hurley cursed out a referee and brought a technical on himself before later describing the call on McNeely as a “complete joke” while speaking to reporters....