RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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See the full story · 1 sourcesDan Hurley isn’t about to jump into the transfer
portal, now that the ruling of a Colorado judge has made six or seven dozen players
eligible to play – at least for now, unless another court overturns that decision – in the 2026-27 season.
He made that clear Friday in speaking with reporters
after a team scrimmage. He’s got the 15 men he plans to do battle with in the
upcoming season, a campaign loaded with one A-list competitor after another
until the rigorous Big East season begins.
Simply, Hurley will not be pursuing any of the members
of the Class of 2022 who have been granted a fifth year of eligibility.
"Our team is on the floor," he said
without hesitation.
Dog Days 😤 pic.twitter.com/DTb16mSNBV
— UConn Men's Basketball (@UConnMBB) August 1, 2026 Get to know the names
Fans already know some of them: Demary ,
Mullins, Ross, Ball, another Ross.
Then there are the freshmen: Landrew. County.
And the transfers: Hines ,
Khamenia, Machowski, Nash and Shaw, Amosoz, Giltay and Džafic .
This is the roster Hurley and his staff put together
in the weeks after their loss
in the championship game of the Men’s NCAA Tournament. A team created after they said goodbye
to five seniors and to four players who decided to search for a different landing
spot in the transfer portal.
Each new player seemingly was selected to fill a
role – experienced players either envisioned by Hurley as a starter or a
necessary depth piece, freshmen intended to develop into standout college
players.
An old-school coach assembled his team in an
old-school manner.
The new school isn’t for Hurley
Hurley has been coaching long enough that he knows
the way college sports used to be – before NIL, before agents, before shared
revenue, before the transfer portal and the havoc all of that has brought.
On Friday, he passionately conveyed his feelings
about teams that are continuing to tinker with their rosters in the wake of
last week’s ruling in Colorado.
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— UConn Men's Basketball (@UConnMBB) July 29, 2026 "The art of what we do has been cheapened a
little bit," he said in his Friday media availability, speaking about the coaching
profession. "You can put together better teams, teams that can compete and
not have to identify young talent, develop that talent.”
“Now,” Hurley continued, “you can screw up high
school recruiting, you can screw up portal recruiting and not have a very good
team, and start plucking from a group of players in August and put together a
team.”
The ramifications of that? A team assembled at the last
minute, denied the time over the summer to jell. Players who had been
working hard to gain an advantage in the battle for a starting spot, for example, suddenly finding themselves with a new role.
“Now, let's unleash 80 players into the sport in the
first week of August. We can't go on like this. And anyone that acts like it's
great, it’s fine, it's good for college basketball, they've already taken the
stance that this is what they've wanted, and now they're just defending their
position. It's total chaos and it's not sustainable."
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