Dan Hurley sat in his hotel room at the Mohegan Sun Casino agonizing over what he was convinced would be a 15-point loss to Rhode Island in UConn’s first preseason exhibition game last season, he wrote in his new book .

His team, the reigning back-to-back national champions, was picked third in the preseason media poll. Hurley argued they should be No. 1 until they were dethroned, but he understood early on that there were some massive holes to be plugged before dreams of a three-peat could become realistic.

Still, he talked the team up, using “dynasty” as a constant refrain.

Complacency, he says, crept in and played a role– along with roster construction and uncharacteristically inconsistent defense – in not reaching those historical expectations.

Now, believing he has the right pi

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