Can Dan Hurley’s third year at URI forecast UConn’s performance this season?

Ian Bethune/The UConn Blog UConn men’s basketball head coach Dan Hurley.Dan Hurley is known as a rebuilder. A program reviver of sorts. He did it at Wagner, he did at Rhode Island and now he’s on his way to doing it at UConn.

Hurley spent six seasons in charge of Rhode Island men’s basketball, a program that he inherited in 2012 as they came off a 7-24 record under Jim Baron. They had one of the worst defenses in college basketball and were one of the worst shooting teams as well.

By the end of his term, though he had taken them to two NCAA tournaments and won a regular season and conference tournament. He left Rhode Island with a .579 winning percentage (195-113) and improved his record…