In Dan Hurley’s first season at UConn, he and guard Christian Vital didn’t exactly have the best relationship. Hurley expressed displeasure with Vital’s defense after a buzzer-beater loss to Wichita State and also took him out of the starting lineup at one point. In their second year together, the pair has put a lot of time into working through whatever issues they had in the past.
“Me and Christian, we spent a lot of time talking. There’s no mediator, it wasn’t like counseling for us, relationship counseling,” Hurley joked. “But it was good to just spent a lot of time talking.