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Dan Hurley’s Wife Debunks Heroic Actions To Prevent UConn From Technical Foul During March Madness

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Andrea Hurley doesn’t know a lot about college basketball. The wife of UConn head coach Dan Hurley was not trying to prevent the Huskies from getting a technical foul against Duke.

She was just trying to prevent them from making the same mistake that she did!

As it would turn out, one of the most viral moments of the college basketball season was a coincidence. Those folding chairs are dangerous.

Andrea Hurley is not a college basketball fan.

Don’t get me wrong. Andrea will always support her husband and his team. She goes to the games to cheer for UConn and she genuinely cares for the players. She obviously wants them all to succeed.

But that’s about it! The head coach’s wife chooses not to learn the ins and outs of the sport.

Her relationship with Dan Hurley would not work if she was more knowledgable about basketball. Her mother-in-law tried early on to get her to care more about the game but she simply refuses to do so.

It is a large part of what makes the Hurleys such a great team! There are not many other people on this earth, if any, who could handle him.

Andrea Hurley keeps the most erratic coach in college basketball in check.

She always makes sure he is in the best position to win, no matter what. Even if that means she has to run back to the team hotel during the first half of the Final Four to grab his holy game day bracelet!

As supportive as she is, Andrea still does not know the inner workings of college basketball after 28 years, five schools and two national championships. She could not tell you anything about analytics. In Dan’s words, “she could not tell you the difference between a three-pointer and a road game.”

Did UConn deserve a technical foul against Duke?

The Huskies erased a 17-point deficit during the second half of the Elite Eight. They stormed all of the way back to advance to the Final Four on an epic buzzer-beater from Braylon Mullins.

It was the shot of the year! UConn’s bench went bonkers. Maybe a little bit too bonkers.

Some college basketball fans (mostly those who cheer for Duke) believe the bench should’ve been called for a technical foul because players and coaches entered the court during live play!

A technical foul was not called. The Huskies won.

Andrea Hurley was widely celebrated for her attempt to avoid a technical foul in the immediate aftermath of Mullins’ triple because she tried to stop players from standing on chairs during the celebration.

However, she was not actually trying to avoid a technical foul. The wife of Dan Hurley didn’t even know they could be called for a technical foul in that moment.

Andrea was worried that the players who stood on the chairs would get hurt! She had just stood on a bench chair to change a lightbulb a few weeks ago and got injured when it collapsed on her leg.

Andrea will take credit for trying to avoid a technical foul but that is not what happened. She didn’t want her husband’s players to get hurt by a collapsed chair like she did.