UConn men's basketball head coach Dan Hurley says junior forward Alex Karaban's snub from the AP's preseason All-American team is emblematic of a "societal issue" with sports.
"Alex does a s--tty job of drawing attention to himself. Maybe if he did more TikToks, he'd have solidified his All-American status," Hurley told reporters on Wednesday (h/t Jaden Daly.) "We value the wrong things in sports.
"We don't value champions, but maybe that's a societal issue."
Karaban, who withdrew from the 2024 NBA draft this spring, is the lone returning starter playing for UConn this fall.