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Evan & Tiki

Best of March Madness on WFAN: UConn's Comeback & St. Johns falls short

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The WFAN team is joined by coaching legend Bobby Hurley Sr. to discuss his son's coaching legacy following a thrilling victory over Duke. Plus, we break down St. John’s tough exit and debate what Rick Pitino could have done differently to change the outcome.

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0:00.0

Joining us right now, and I sadly have not spoken to him in a long time, but there was a point in my life when we talked once in a while, and I'm a huge fan, but the legendary high school basketball coach and a Hall of Famer, Coach Bob Hurley joins us now.

0:16.0

Coach Craig Carton, Chris McMonagull, thanks for taking a few moments out of your day. How are you?

0:21.1

Good, good. How we do, guys? Great. Thank you for calling in. Maybe not as good as I am right now. No, I mean, you've got to be walking on clouds right now. Everyone knows my feeling about you and your family, and I've said it a million times. I think Danny's the single best coach in all of college basketball, maybe the pros as well.

0:38.1

But you've been a part of a lot of special basketball moments.

0:41.3

Walk me through for you as a fan sitting in the stands with your beautiful wife.

0:46.4

What the final 10 seconds, 20 seconds of yesterday's game was like for you guys.

0:51.2

Literally, even though I coach in high school, I was a varsity coach, I was 45 years,

0:57.1

that whole last 30 seconds, I guess, or 23 seconds was a blur.

1:02.9

And just like Mullen said that he thought he tied the game, I thought he tied the game.

1:08.2

My wife is saying, I mean, no, we won the game.

1:11.5

And I look up at the scoreboard now, and it was three, and it was, you know, we were down two, not down three.

1:17.5

So I can't contribute much here.

1:20.6

It was, you know, plus they wore us out because, you know, at 19, you're trying to believe that you can go back in this thing.

1:28.1

Right.

1:28.4

And then it's 15 at halftime.

1:30.0

Now you have 20 minutes to talk yourself into, oh, yeah, we can do this.

1:35.4

So then you say it's four minutes every TV timeout, let's see.

1:39.6

And then, you know, it just kept being within the realm.

1:44.4

Who knew? Well, it was interesting being within the realm. Who knew?

1:45.1

Well, it was interesting, coach, is that there were a couple times where they got it down to nine. And to give due credit, and the Boozer brothers were great for the majority of the game. You know, they get a big bucket, make it 11, make it back to 12. And they stymied a couple of the runs. but then when you had a couple of those kind of mid-court turnovers and a Yukon converted,

2:04.1

you had an couple of those kind of mid-court turnovers and a Yukon converted, you had an N-1 a couple times, it was like, hey, now we got it to seven. Hey, now we got it to two possessions. Was there ever a point prior to Mullen's shot where you looked at your wife or whomever else you were with and you were like, I think we have a shot to actually do this?

2:19.1

Yeah, my two brothers were with me with their wives.

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