Dan Hurley’s wife Andrea has revealed that she made a mid-game dash back to her hotel room to fetch the UConn coach’s holy beads – with the help of a police escort and a reminder from Bill Murray’s son.
The Huskies will face Michigan in the national championship game on Monday night after a Final Four victory over Illinois.
That win meant Hurley has now led UConn to the final of March Madness in three of the past four seasons.
But his wife feared the worst after she realized she had forgotten a crucial part of his gameday attire.
‘He got this bracelet years and years ago in church – they’re holy beads and they’re from Jerusalem. So they said,’ Andrea told CBS Sports.
‘He wears them every single game – they break all the time. They’ve been breaking for years and fall over the floor. So I string them and I had to go to the Hobby Lobby to get more wooden beads.’
Dan Hurley has now led UConn to the final of March Madness in three of the past four seasons
Andrea Hurley revealed that she made a mid-game dash back to her hotel for his holy beads
Andrea explained that the UConn coach recently broke the bracelet once more and asked her to fix it before the Final Four.
‘Oh no, no, I will. I put them in my bag and – there’s so much going on – I forgot,’ she explained.
‘I get to my seat last night, [UConn assistant coach] Luke Murray calls me and said: “Where are the holy beads?”‘
Murray is the son of actor and comedian, Bill Murray, and Andrea soon realized the beads were back in her hotel room.
‘I had to leave the arena last night, run in the rain, get the beads… I was watching the start of the game in the hotel room,’ she continued.
‘I grabbed the beads, then I got a police escort back with the holy beads. So I saved it – the win is all mine.’
