UConn basketball’s Dan Hurley gets real about depression during playing days at Seton Hall

The UConn basketball program is back in the Final Four, and head coach Dan Hurley has been making the rounds in the media, with The Pat McAfee Show being his latest appearance. Hurley’s mental health struggles during his playing days with the Seton Hall basketball program have been discussed before, but he opened up more about them during his interview today.

“I ws in a deep depression man. I was locked in my dorm room,” Dan Hurley said on The Pat McAfee show. “I played a game at St. John’s, my brother, we played a doubleheader at MSG. My brother played the Knicks that same day, and we played St. John’s. I think I went 1-for-12 from the field, I got off to a horrific start to my season. I went and met my brother that night, late night, I’m not going to tell you where in the city, we might have had a couple of beers and talked about it. I kind of asked him permission to step away from basketball at that point, because it was just eating me up to struggle so much and I was in such a bad place. …I basically locked myself in my dorm for a couple of days and refused to leave. There weren’t cell phones back then, so people were just knocking and slamming on my door trying to find me and I just held up and the first person I really talked to in that room was Sister Catherine.”