Luke Murray is an American

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coach who is an assistant for the

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team.

Early life

Murray was born to actor

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and Margaret Kelly. He attended St. Luke's School in

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, where he played basketball and football. Murray attended

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and graduated in 2007. He began coaching AAU basketball during his freshman year at Fairfield. He later served as an assistant on an AAU team coached by former

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head coach John Carroll during his final years in college.

Coaching career

Murray began his college coaching career in 2007 as the director of basketball operations at

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under coach Tom Moore. After one season he was hired as an assistant coach at

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. Murray left Post to take a graduate assistant position at

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in 2009. Murray was hired as an assistant coach at

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by head coach

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. He was hired to the coaching staff at

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in 2011. Murray was hired at

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, reuniting him with Hurley. Murray was hired to head coach Chris Mack's staff at Xavier in 2015 after two seasons at Rhode Island. He followed Mack when he was hired as the head coach at

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in 2018. Murray also served as the primary recruiter for the Cardinals in addition to his assistant coaching duties. His contract was not renewed at the end of the 2020–2021 season. Murray was hired a third time by Dan Hurley, now the head coach at

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, on May 3, 2021. He began coordinating the Huskies offense prior to the start of the team's 2022–2023 national championship season. He continued as offensive coordinator the following season as UConn repeated as national champion. Murray signed a three-year contract extension on July 8, 2024.

References

External links

UConn Huskies bio
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