| By Seth Davis Hurley led his Huskies to their second straight NCAA Tournament championship in 2024. It was just the third time since 1973 that a school has repeated, but it was far more impressive than the previous two, Duke 1991-92 and Florida 2006-07. In each of those cases, the teams brought back the bulk of their rotations. UConn, on the other hand, lost three starters and five of its top eight scorers from the group that won the 2023 NCAA Tournament. For winning back-to-back titles alone, Hurley would be the obvious choice for Hoops HQ’s 2024 Man of the Year. But it is the other part of the coach's story — not just his willingness, but his need to be so publicly vulnerable — that is even more worth honoring. Just as he did on the court, Hurley has raised the bar on society’s pressing search to properly define things like masculinity, toughness and courage. Does it make a man tough to pretend like he has everything figured out, even if he’s really dying inside? Or is real courage revealed in admitting that you actually don’t have everything figured out, and then figuring it out anyway? | 