STORRS, Connecticut -- Dan Hurley leans forward in a chair inside his office overlooking UConn's men's basketball practice court and smiles.
"I'm not the victim," he said with a laugh.
In recent weeks, the fifth-year UConn head coach was shown on camera calling one official a "f---ing clown" in a win over Villanova and was given a technical foul late in a tight game against Xavier.
None of this is a new development for Hurley, one of the more fiery sideline personalities in college basketball. He has been ejected from games, reprimanded by the Big East and called out by local media to stop getting technical fouls at inopportune times.