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How UConn built the ‘most complex’ — and efficient —offense in college basketball

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Dan Hurley and assistant coach Luke Murray devised an offense heavy on off-ball screening and cuts, and it may lead to back-to-back titles.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — In the summer of 2022, Connecticut coach Dan Hurley decided he was going to adopt a new offensive system and a new way of teaching set plays. Hurley opted to go with a football approach. He came up with a glossary of terms for different alignments and actions. He gives a made-up example: “14 jet zoom pitch twin.” Advertisement The 14 is for the alignment — a one-four low — and then the stack actions on top of each other.

Advertisement “If you make a decision to reject the screen, now that sets off a chain of events with two or three other off-ball scenarios,” Murray explains. “That’s something that we really work on hard, because good defensive teams a lot of times can do a good job at taking teams out of set plays. But I think the randomness of the way that we cut, the randomness of the way that we screen and the versatility of our guys as passers and movers and screeners and shooters really makes it hard.

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