Did Dan Hurley deserve a technical after game-winning shot for going face-to-face with ref?
UConn coach Dan Hurley is intense. Should it have cost him after the Huskies' game-winning shot against Duke?
UConn coach Dan Hurley is known for his high-energy antics on the sideline. That unsurprisingly didn't change after true freshman Braylon Mullins buried a game-winning 3-pointer with 0. 4 seconds left in the Huskies' 73-72 win over top-seeded Duke in the Elite Eight.
Hurley, a two-time national champion at UConn, came face-to-face with the referee after Mullins' shot, despite there still being 0. 4 seconds left on the clock. He wasn't given a technical foul despite coming in contact with the referee, resulting in UConn moving onto the Final Four.
pic. twitter. com/kMA7lvN1av — SendDaVideo (@SendDaVideo) March 30, 2026 Former Wisconsin star Sam Dekker, who played in the Final Four in 2014 and 2015, was one of many that said Hurley should've been given a technical foul in the moment.
"I have no bias here," Dekker wrote on X. "This is a tech 10/10 times. For multiple reasons… it would have lost the game for his team and he would have tried to fight the officials like he did nothing wrong.