UConn beats Syracuse
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Hey, there, America, remember the "Hungry Huskies?" Maybe it's time to get reacquainted.
Dan Hurley has taken the listless, dispirited players he inherited from Kevin Ollie and turned them into a wild bunch. Whipped up into a pressing, diving, perimeter-shooting frenzy, they pulled off the program's most satisfying surprise in a while, knocking off 15th-ranked Syracuse, 83-76, before a filled Madison Square Garden.
It's early in the season, sure, but the Huskies (3-0) are doing all that Hurley, hired last March, promised they would, and they can add an old-school UConn souvenir — a trophy earned in New York — if they can beat the winner of the Iowa-Oregon game in the final of the 2K Empire Classic Friday night at 6:30 p.m.