UConn fans are livid with the NCAA after the players were given tiny hotel beds at the Final Four
More fuel for Danny Hurley.
UConn may be the defending national champion, but nothing about its road to the men’s Final Four has been easy. After dealing with mechanical and staffing issues with their charter flight to Phoenix, the Huskies eventually arrived in Arizona (on Allegiant!) after 3 a.m. Pacific Time.
At that point, the players and entire traveling party must have been thrilled to get to their hotel in Downtown Phoenix. But UConn fans quickly noticed that something was amiss.
The NCAA, which makes all the travel arrangements for the NCAA tournament, appeared to have UConn players booked in double beds while NC State’s DJ Burns was given a spacious king room at the Wolfpack’s team hotel.
These are not the same @NCAA pic.twitter.com/MIKdhtN9n6
— UConn Football Scoops (@uconnfbscoops) April 4, 2024
I demand answers @NCAA https://t.co/yvKDDKXWZo pic.twitter.com/vd7vnNXyCx
— HuskyHops (@HuskyHops) April 4, 2024
Now, UConn and NC State aren’t at the same hotels. Huskies are at the Sheraton (a newly renovated hotel), and NC State is at the Renaissance. So, the actual room assignments could have been a hotel-specific call and not on the NCAA. But still, you’d expect the NCAA to ensure that every player was given a comparable room. You can’t have 7-foot-2 Donovan Clingan sleeping on that tiny bed.
This wouldn’t be the first time that UConn has had NCAA-related hotel issues either as the team had to ditch the atrocious Luxor for Resorts World while in Las Vegas for the Sweet 16/Elite Eight in 2023.
Needless to say, UConn fans were not happy to see the disparity.
This was how Twitter reacted
My guess will be the @NCAA blames each individual hotel but this is wildly unacceptable. UConn consistently gets screwed by the accommodations. #UconnVsTheWorld https://t.co/iTOmdBDKFI
— Josh Schilberg (@Jschil30) April 4, 2024
Utterly shocking that the NCAA would do this https://t.co/PJLz6MIcVW
— SPG (@SPG9814) April 4, 2024
Add this to the dan hurley disrespekt rant https://t.co/7BPg5oO7ae
— Geoff (@PU_ACL_Donor) April 4, 2024
Don’t worry the @NCAA has fixed our hotel arrangements #UConn #BleedBlue pic.twitter.com/uDE9vTaaT6
— BigLarryForearm (@BigLarryBabyArm) April 4, 2024
UConn against the world https://t.co/PcC1AKODx0
— Arrogant Husky (Taylor’s Version) (@ArrogantHusky) April 4, 2024
If the travel disaster and hotel situation doesn’t say UConn by million – I don’t think you’ve been paying attention… should have given some of this fuel to the aircraft
— Jen Fusci (@foosh28) April 4, 2024