UConn Huskies prepare for a high-stakes NCAA Tournament opener against Furman, with Silas Demary Jr.’s injury status causing last-minute lineup uncertainty. Will Dan Hurley’s top-5 defense hold up if Demary, Malachi Smith, or Jaylin Stewart can’t suit up? Furman, led by Alex Wilkins and sharpshooter Asa Thomas, enters as a potential upset threat, fresh off a history-making win over Virginia in 2023.
Matt Schonvisky spotlights UConn’s defensive resurgence, explores possible rotation tweaks, and dissects Hurley’s strategic mindset in a one-and-done tournament setting. Key players, matchups, and the psychological advantages of playing unfamiliar opponents take center stage alongside NCAA odds and bracket implications. Can UConn’s championship pedigree and defensive strength propel them toward another deep March run? Don’t miss this analysis of UConn’s path to glory.
00:00: UConn vs Furman Preview Tournament opener, injury updates (Demary, Smith, Stewart), Furman team breakdown.
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It is NCAA Tournament Day.
Yukon opens up tonight against Ferman.
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Especially for this Yukon men's basketball team.
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We'll talk about that.
But first, we're going to open with an injury update.
Silas Demory, Malachi Smith, Jill and Stewart.
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So Dan Hurley was at the podium on Wednesday.
Wednesday or Thursday.
And he was asked a question that said,
Hey, Silas Demory just told Joe Ruta of the heart for current.
And he's just putting on social media that Silas Demory is going to be good to go on Friday night.
Who is Dan Hurley's looking around?
He said, what?
I was just about to put him as questionable on the sheet ahead of the game.
Which leads me to believe I'm not sure exactly what's going to be transpiring here and who's going to be starting the game on Friday night.
I know Dan Hurley as a coach and listen, injuries.
And information around injuries.
I know coaches love to control that information.
And I know Sunday night.
Right when the NCAA tournament was being revealed and there were comments on social media.
I think even members of Silas Demory's family were putting out information on social media that.
Hey, MRI negative.
Things are going to be good.
Which for you kind of fans, that's great news, right?
You want to hear it.
You love to hear it for coaching staff.
That's probably not the best way to communicate and reveal information just.
Having been in and around coaches and how they like to operate for the last 12 years.
And even before that, when I was part of the football program.
As a work study I was doing as I was in grad school.
It was.
You don't want injury news getting out there.
At least that you how it used to be.
Social media is not what it was not then what it is today.
Social media was around, but it wasn't as prevalent.
Not everybody was on everything.
Not everyone was communicating on social media.
When I was within a program.
But.
When I transitioned into covering sports from a media standpoint.
I know because I've tried to get information on injuries.
Coaches keep everything close to the vest.
And then if you also have information on injuries and you know information on injuries.
Coaches also do not like you releasing it publicly.
I know that.
I've experienced a first hand.
Different types of coaches, different type of personalities.
Decay to go is a little different than today.
Some coaches don't care.
Some coaches do.
So every coach is different.
But didn't really reaction.
Oh, man.
Because later in his press conference leading into the Fermi game.
He was also asked about Joe Stewart.
And his response was, well, maybe I should go outside this memory.
I wanted to show you a good update on Joe and Stuart.
So clearly.
Dan Hurley did not want that information out there.
Now, his Silas demo, we're actually going to be good to go?
I don't know.
For the report that was out there.
He should be fine.
For Dan Hurley, he's going to be marked questionable heading in as his.
Joe Stuart questionable.
It sounds like based on what Dan Hurley was saying.
Jail and Stewart has a better chance of playing Sunday than he does tonight against Firm
But he said it's gonna be close. We'll see how things are at shoot around how he's moon around how things look how he's feeling, but he's close
We'll see we'll see how that goes
The Malachi Smith news. That's a little
New information that arose the other day at the press conference as well that hey
He's also dealing with all some thing and
We'll see what that means for the rotation because if if these guys can't go if these guys aren't really healthy if these guys can't play their full minutes
Who's gonna backfill because
Earlier on it was hey seen things seem to be okay. That Silas Demors on track
I know the report that was out there on social media that he's he's gonna be good to go
But back to Dan Hurley said he's gonna be questionable. Well, let's talk about hypotheticals because the Silas Demory Jr
Is not ready to go what happens. I think might me. I think no informed information here
I think you slide Jalen Jaden Ross into the starting lineup
Because you need to maintain your defensive intensity, which we're gonna talk about in a second
I think you move
Brillen
Mullins and solo ball into more of a point guard ball handling roll
And you bring Jaden Ross in as a starter. I think that's what would transpire if things if Silas is not ready to go
But it's important that this team and I would like to see
Jalen Stewart if he's gonna be coming back get him on the floor tonight
Because when you look forward, I'd rather see Jalen Stewart
ease into playing time again against the likes of a firm and nothing against them
But should you con win
Their next matchup is against the power for whether that's UCLA
Whether that's UCF and I think UCF as a 10 I think they're a little underrated there
So that's gonna be a great game today between UCLA LA and UCF
I think it's a toss-up because UCF has been competitive
In the big 12 and I think they have an opportunity to potentially take out UCLA
Either matchups are gonna be a good one if Yukon advances
The brand matchup between Yukon and UCLA would be significant obviously on Sunday
But let's not look ahead because we've got an opponent in front of this team
Furman
Who has played NCAA tournament teams throughout the regular season
Including the high point team that knocked off Wisconsin yesterday
They opened the year against high point high point dominated they won by 26
They won by 26
Furman also lost to Troy and NCAA tournament team they lost to them by three
They lost to Northern Iowa and NCAA tournament team by 16
They beat Queens and NCAA tournament team by 11
So they played four teams that are in the tournament
They also beat Harvard who's historically been a program that can be competitive against power four teams
They did beat Harvard
By 10
So this is a team that especially as the season went along
That's three of the first four all against NCAA tournament teams and then from there
You they they racked off they rattled off a
Big stretch between November 19
All the way to January 14th where they only lost two games
Now 12 and 2 they're 14 game stretch
So they completely turned their season around after losing three or four
They have also 156 to close the season including the final three games of the regular of the postseason tournament to advance to the
NCAA tournament and get the auto bit
Beating East Tennessee State 76 to 61 in the final
this team
Is lead
Scoring wise by Alex Wilkins
A player that puts in 17 points per game
He's under 33% from three
But he does score
Close to 20 again
Cooper Bowser is their big low post presence. He's got 14 points a game six rebounds
And then you've got another bigger guy Charles Johnson
We haven't just close to a double double is basically 10 points 9.1 on rebounds
10 and 9 again
So Yukon's going to have to be competitive on the boards
Aza Thomas
They're thirdly in a score only other player in double figures averages 12.4
He's probably their best three point shooter from the perimeter
Seems to be right around 33 34 35%
So Yukon's got a team here that hey they've shown they can compete against
Teams that are in the tournament
They've shown that they could score
And is Aza Thomas kid
He's actually 39% this year last season he shot 50% from the outside
So this is definitely somebody that you're going to need to keep an eye on if you're Yukon on the perimeter
Later tonight
So those are probably the four names I'd keep an eye on Alex Wilkins your leaning score
Bowser's your the main big Aza Thomas
Your big three point shooter on the perimeter
Then Johnston he's a double double threat
That's who you need to look out for
Firm and if you remember
It's also no stranger to knocking off some higher profile teams in the NCI tournaments if you remember back in 2023
They did knock out Virginia with that crazy
Kind of a miracle finish they were up
Virginia was up what five with 10 seconds left
Ends up losing to Firm and 68 67 so
There no stranger to first round upsets this team
It's a challenge just like any game in the NCI tournament Yukon's got to come in with the right mindset the right mindset the right heart
That's the big thing
They also
Got to play good defense. We're going to talk about that
after break
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What is key we talked about earlier this week one of the three keys in the main in the nca tournament for you kind of be successful
Another piece that we didn't touch on in that day
defense
What's the single thing from last year to this season in terms of the metrics that you cons improve themselves and have been more competitive and played championship level
defense
The old ad is defense wins championships
Talked about that over and over and over and over again regardless of any sport defense wins championships
And Yukon has played championship level defense this season
Top five didn't really even reiterate it the other day at the podium top five at times this season Yukon has been
Defensively a huge change from last season when that was a not a strong suit for that
The
Improvement the market improvement that they made because of players like Silas, Demory, Jr
The head of the Yukon snake the head of the snake defensively for Yukon
Terce region is also a massive impact on the defense event the big time post presence that they need
He's got a show through we've talked about that earlier this week. That was one of the keys his rim protection is part of this defense
But the head of the snake defensively Silas, Demory, Jr. If he can't go
What does that do for Yukon? What does that do for this Yukon defense? That's that's why in a hypothetical situation Silas, Demory, Jr. is not ready
Jaden Ross needs to step into the starting rotation
Because you need a player that will step in and provide the energy on the defense aside that aggressiveness on the defense aside
To make an impact
Try to speed up teams make them uncomfortable and Jaden Ross is that type of player
I think he slides into the starting role of Silas is not able to go by all accounts he should
By all accounts will be there
But you're probably even if he is on the court you're probably going to see an uptake of Jaden Ross's minutes
Because maybe they'll be slowly working Silas back into a full
Full rotation
And then if Malachi Smith can't play did it really all that also was asked about about Melinda
And what he's done this season and why he's been a special impact player for this team off the court in the locker room
He's a type of guy that always players are talking up and up and up despite not having an impact on the court this year
He did play more early on this season when there were injuries when Braille and Mullins and Terrace Reed were out
He was more a part of the rotation
But as this team got healthy
Melinda slid back and has been a bench bench guy
More motivational guy off the bench
Not really seeing time unless it's a blowout either way
The only time he's really seen on the back half of the season time on the court
If Demory if Malachi Smith are not able to go
Dana really said you're going to see Melinda
His last comment at that press conference was that
Be prepared you might see Alec Melinda a lot more than you saw him during the regular season given the current situation
So that's also a possibility of what you could see maybe he's the maybe he's the point off the bench
Maybe this guy that comes in off the bench
And Hurley made it a point to also say that hey
He came here. He thought he was competing for time. This is a player that could
compete for a starting role in the eight ten
He's got that level full of play to him
So it was not a guy that doesn't have ability doesn't have skill. He's here for a reason
At the very least he'd be six made off the bench is what Dan Hurley said in the eight ten that caliper player
very least
likely starting role
So if Demory is not able to go
So
That's what transpires, but the defensive success is greatly important for this team to make a run
They got to play solid defense
Which is why if Demory is not available I see Jaden Ross sliding in
Because you got to have that on ball defender
To wreck havoc and create havoc defensively
I think that's what you're going to see
In our final segment
We're going to talk about a one and done setting and why Daniel Hurley believes it's a freeing nature
The NCAA tournament why he likes it
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Kicks off their path to potentially a third national championship in four seasons. I believe I believe it's realistic
This team has everything that it takes and why does Yukon play so well in the NCA term everybody knows the stats everybody knows how they've covered after it
Was it 13 straight games? They've covered in the NCA tournament is one of the stats. I've seen out there
Why do they take care of business in the NCA tournament? Why are they more competitive in the NCA tournament? Why do they play their best in the NCA tournament? Dan Hurley talked about it
He says the freeing nature of the NCA tournament where listen when you win a championship and when you're going through the grind of a regular season
And maybe you drop a game that you shouldn't and then you look ahead and you have the two tough as next games on your schedule and you're like ah
You could have a three game losing streak here
That all wipes away in the NCA tournament. You're not looking ahead in the schedule. You're not looking ahead in the calendar
What you're doing is you're in the moment. You're present
There's no all we've got oh St. John's is circled on that calendar
Right there's no let down game because you're looking ahead to the next opponent
In the NCA tournament
It's either you show up and you play
Or your season or your potentially if you're senior and you don't have a path forward
Your career would be over
It's why
Especially when you have coaches like Dan Hurley
Leaders like Dan Hurley
It's why
They get their teams to focus
Because they are able to communicate the importance of these situations to their teams
No doubt
And Dan Hurley can relax
It's more he's more at ease because it's a one and done setting that hey
This is it
No going back
He also did talk about hey your success your prior success in NCA tournament runs
That does create more and more and more pressure. So as he's had success
You would think hey once you get an amount top
That relief is off your shoulders
For Dan Hurley it's more
That's your new expectation
That's the new requirements. That's your new you know what you can accomplish. So if you don't go out and do it again
That adds on more pressure and more angst
Especially as you go through a regular season
Especially when you go through a regular season you're not playing despite winning games like you did this year 29-5
Despite not playing your best
You saw Dan Hurley extra frustrated especially after wins this season
I think that's trying to be perfect. We talked about this. You don't need to be perfect every single moment
As long as you're we talked a lot about this right?
So I'm here improving as long as you're getting better better and better and better each and every single day
So you're just driving towards that ultimate goal and getting better and getting closer and closer to it
And that's your job as a coach right
To continuously get more and more out of your team and not but but to a certain extent not ask them to do things you know they can't do
Because you you crafted this roster you crafted this team you crafted this program a certain way in the vision that you have for execution on game day
And now
You know it's not you con in the biggest where you have limited freedom of motion and
Much more physical
When you get into NC at tournament time just like what we saw in out of conference play
It's not teams that know you ever in that played you multiple times each and every season
Dan Hurley's talked about this a bunch and I know I've talked about this on a national scale with some of the other locked on
team members and I know I've gotten reactions like what what do you mean
But when you play two to three times St. John's we've already played them three times
And when you go up against a coach like Rick Patino
You know what you're getting
Patino knows what's coming from Yukon
And these coaches are good enough that they're gonna adjust and they're gonna play differently. They're gonna be able to shut certain things down
It leads to certain situations like happened
And the biggest title game now the same is true the other way around you saw what happened in the first gaming at St. John's
Want when you got when Dan Hurley got St. John's and Hartford
He made the adjustments right
So the truth between seeing you kind of St. John is somewhere in the middle
But the thing is these teams know each other so well and conference play
That is tougher. It's tougher games despite
The perceived lack of competition and lack of talent that's in the biggest
Despite that you go up against somebody over and over and over again. You're gonna know how they play