UConn head coach Dan Hurley has a pair of lucky underwear.
As far as sports superstitions go, this one is pretty tame, if not especially common among athletes. It’s all well and fine and mostly harmless.
In Hurley’s case, we’re talking about a pair of MeUndies red boxers with dragons on them. I know this, so you need to know this. He wore a similar pair all last March during the Huskies’ title run and lo and behold they’ve returned this year.
Hurley, thankfully, isn’t superstitious enough to abstain from washing his underwear, but apparently the coach relies on his wife, Andrea, to clean them in between games. After UConn defeated San Diego State in Thursday’s Sweet 16 matchup, Hurley shouted out the practice in his postgame interview on the court.
Dan Hurley after UConn's Sweet 16 win:
My wife Andrea, who never gets enough TV time, by the way, it's always others, she's got to get the hand washer going to get these dragon underwear clean for a quick turnaround." pic.twitter.com/vtcadNvo0p
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 29, 2024
It’s totally fine that Hurley has lucky underwear. It’s great that he can joke about them. It’s even better that will make sure they are clean.
All of that said— Dan Hurley, please wash your own underwear. You really don’t have to make that someone else’s problem. You are 51 years old. I have no doubt you can figure this out.
At the very least, that’s a lot of pressure to put on someone else. At worst, well, college basketball in March has never been kind to the stomach or bladder.
That should be a thing that Dan Hurley and only Dan Hurley gets to visualize.
