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Dan Hurley Staking Claim as Best Active Men's College Basketball Coach with 2nd Natty

Dan Hurley cuts down the nets after his second, UConn's sixth national championship in men's college basketball.Alysa Rubin/NCAA Photos via Getty Images

GLENDALE — The night before the Connecticut Huskies put the finishing touches on the most impressive, dominant—Dare we say, dynastic?—two-year run in at least the past three decades of men's college basketball, it was already abundantly clear that UConn head coach Dan Hurley had been chiseled into the Mount Rushmore of active coaches.

In a 24-hour news cycle that was hijacked by John Calipari's reported decision to leave Kentucky for Arkansas, the big question immediately became: Who takes that job in Lexington?