Dan Hurley’s wife Andrea jokingly takes credit for UConn Final Four win after ‘holy bead’ heroics
The UConn basketball team is preparing for Monday night’s 2026 NCAA Tournament final against the Michigan Wolverines at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, where the Huskies will be searching for the program’s third national championship in four years. Ahead of Monday night’s primetime showdown, Andrea Hurley, the wife of UConn head coach Dan Hurley, stopped by the CBS Sports desk, where she shared a hilarious story about the Huskies’ Saturday night win. She jokingly credited herself for the win because of some pre-game heroics, including holy beads.
Andrea revealed that she realized before tip-off that she had forgotten one of Coach Hurley’s gameday superstitions, so she had to “leave the arena last night, run in the rain, get the beads … and then [get] a police escort back with the holy beads. ” MORE: UCLA women’s basketball makes history in national championship run She joked, “I saved it. The win is all mine.
” "I had to leave the arena last night, run in the rain, get the beads… and then I got a police escort back with the holy beads. " Andrea Hurley drops a story about bringing her husband's holy beads to the Final Four on Saturday night 😅 pic. twitter.
com/TlGP10UniD — CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) April 5, 2026 “He got this bracelet years and years ago in church, and they’re holy beads, and they’re from Jerusalem,” Andrea said. “He wears them every single game. They break all the time.
They’ve been breaking for years. They fall all over the floor. So I string them [back together].