Submitted by Haley Stafford
(October 1, 2025) — Chairwoman Pam Steele of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce has announced that the University of Connecticut Men’s Basketball Head Coach Dan Hurley will serve as keynote speaker at a Chamber Breakfast Meeting on Monday, October 20, 2025.
The Breakfast Meeting, sponsored by Comcast Business and Xfinity, will be held at the Sheraton Hartford South Hotel from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
A proven program-builder and one of the great winners in modern college basketball, Dan Hurley was named the 19th head coach in UConn men’s basketball history in March of 2018. During his first seven years in Storrs he has revitalized the program and cemented its blue-blood status with the first back-to-back titles in Huskies history, climbing the mountaintop in both 2023 and 2024.
Basketball was always Hurley’s destiny. Born into basketball royalty in 1973 in Jersey City, New Jersey, his father, Bob Hurley Sr., is a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member and the architect of one of the great high school dynasties of all-time at St. Anthony’s in Jersey City. Hurley played at St. Anthony’s along with his older brother Bobby – a two-time national champion at Duke widely considered the greatest point guard in NCAA history.
In seven seasons at Connecticut, Hurley has compiled a 165-69 record (.705) including a 69-27 (.719) mark in Big East play. He steadily improved the team’s winning percentage in each of his first five seasons until the Huskies won a program-record 37 games and went 37-3 in his sixth season in 2023-24. At UConn, Hurley has mentored a total of nine NBA players (pre-2025 Draft), including four lottery picks. Over seven seasons in Storrs he has developed two All-Americans, eight First Team All-Conference picks, two Freshman of the Year winners and a Bob Cousy Award winner.
Hurley was named the 2024 Naismith College Coach of the Year – the first men’s coach to win the honor in UConn history. His father previously won the Naismith High School Coach of the Year, making them the first father-son duo to earn Naismith Coach of the Year laurels.
Dan and his wife, Andrea, who met while both were attending Seton Hall, are the parents of two sons, Danny, also a Seton Hall graduate, and Andrew, a two-time national champion member of the basketball team and graduate manager at UConn.
Chamber President Johanna Bond noted, “We look forward to welcoming Coach Dan Hurley, head of the UConn Men’s Basketball Program, back to our Member Breakfast Meeting. We are proud of his remarkable success over the past seven years and look forward to cheering him on throughout the upcoming season and beyond. A special thank you to Comcast Business and Xfinity for their continued support of this event.”
The cost is $30 for Chamber Members and $30 for non-members. Advance registration is required, please register online: www.middlesexchamber.com.
