Latest / Coaches Corner / Dan Hurley - Postgame Xavier
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Dan, that was like a heavyweight fight. Big play after
- 0:02Speaker 1: big play on both sides, and eventually you got the
- 0:04Speaker 1: last blows in.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Yeah, it just got so much respect for how they played.
- 0:07Speaker 2: And you know, usually when teams make the type of
- 0:11Speaker 2: shots they were making, I mean, ridiculously hard threes off
- 0:14Speaker 2: the dribble, you know, those games generally lose. But we
- 0:17Speaker 2: found a way.
- 0:18Speaker 1: No Samson Johnson, but Taris Reed Junior really came up big.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Twenty points, thirteen rebounds. What'd you like about his night?
- 0:24Speaker 2: Yeah, just obviously the production and you know, the work
- 0:27Speaker 2: on the glass, and yeah, I just thought he you know,
- 0:30Speaker 2: he showed up. If he didn't show up like that,
- 0:33Speaker 2: we had a loss.
- 0:33Speaker 1: But in regulation they were twelve of nineteen from three.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Some concerns about three point defense, not really.
- 0:40Speaker 2: I know that sounds crazy, but you know it's they
- 0:43Speaker 2: were hitting Dame Lillard Steph Curry type of step back
- 0:47Speaker 2: side shops, threes.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Off the dribble. I think it just was very very
- 0:52Speaker 3: incredible shot making.
- 0:53Speaker 1: All right, Dan, good stuff, thank you, congratulations you count
- 0:56Speaker 1: coach Dan Hurley. After the huskies ninety four to eighty
- 0:58Speaker 1: nine overtime win over Xavier in Hartford, they had three
- 1:03Speaker 1: players with twenty or more points, and that's the first
- 1:07Speaker 1: time that's happened since January thirty first, twenty twenty three
- 1:11Speaker 1: against Saint John's here with Jordan Hawkins, Tristan Newton and
- 1:14Speaker 1: Adamas Snogo. It's also the first non Tristan Newton doubled
- 1:18Speaker 1: double with assists since Altrey Gilbert in twenty nineteen and
- 1:23Speaker 1: Hassan Diiarra, who had that double double with assists eleven assists. Today,
- 1:28Speaker 1: as a starter, he's had fifty two assists and just
- 1:31Speaker 1: ten turnovers, amazing numbers for the Huskies, who win it
- 1:34Speaker 1: ninety four to eighty nine.