BOSTON — In a quest for back-to-back national titles, UConn coach Dan Hurley saw a competitive advantage for the Huskies soon after they cut down the nets in Houston last year.
Way back then, he saw UConn’s potential path back to the Final Four only requiring bus trips. And with the Huskies handling business in the first two rounds of the men’s NCAA tournament in Brooklyn against No. 16 Stetson and No. 9 Northwestern, Hurley said his team has earned an expected home-court advantage in Boston this weekend.
“We hope the crowd can be a Storrs North for us,” Hurley said, referencing the school’s home in Connecticut. “Maybe feel a little bit like [Madison Square Garden] does for us when we play there [in] the Big East tournament and during the Big East regular season, too.”
He estimated that 60% of the crowd could be wearing UConn blue when the…
