Basketball Player

Seton Hall’s basketball team, the Pirates, has moved like a steamroller through most of the other college teams in the Big East – something which many attribute to the skills and speed of guard and co-captain Danny Hurley. 

It took quite a while for Hurley to overcome the reputation of his more famous brother, Bobby Hurley, a basketball player for the Sacramento Kings. “I felt like I was in an impossible situation,” he once said. “People would see the name `Hurley’ and expect big things every time I stepped on the court. I was always in the spotlight. And if I don’t produce the way they thought I was supposed to, I was a failure. I love my brother very much and I’m his biggest fan, but I actually got to the point where I didn’t like being Bobby Hurley’s little brother anymore.” 

Since then, Hurley has built a reputation in his own right, and is no longer in his brother’s shadow. He was a first-team all-state selection, and received the Eastman Award as the top high school player in the New Jersey/New York area. The Jersey City native who was coached by his father, Bob Hurley, when he played for St. Anthony’s, is now proudly wearing the Seton Hall uniform. 

A recent win against St. John’s was in no small part attributed to the deft playing of Hurley, a 78 percent free throw shooter who scored 21 points that night, sealing the victory with a critical free throw with 13 seconds left.