Luke Murray may be close to landing his first head coaching job.
The UConn men’s basketball assistant is “close to a deal” with Boston College to become the program’s next head coach, according to a report from the New England Football Journal.
Kevin Stone reported that Murray was offered the position.
“Feels like it’s Murray’s job now if he wants it,” Stone wrote on X. “We could all just be waiting on the UConn season to wrap up at this point.”
Yet another coaching search update for BC MBB:
Luke Murray was in fact offered a deal by BC. I do not know if Larranaga was.
Feels like it’s now Murray’s job if he wants it. We could all just be waiting on the UConn season to wrap up at this point.@BCEagleAction
— Kevin J. Stone (@kstone06) March 25, 2026
Murray has been one of Dan Hurley’s top assistants at UConn since 2021, and has been referred to as the program’s “offensive coordinator,” helping create and run one of the most sophisticated offenses in college basketball. It was that offense that partially intrigued LeBron James after UConn won its second straight national title in 2024, and led to Hurley being offered the Los Angeles Lakers job that offseason.
Prior to his time at UConn, the 40-year-old Murray worked as an assistant at Louisville, Xavier, Towson, and alongside Hurley at Wagner and Rhode Island.
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Boston College fired head coach Earl Grant after an 11-20 season this past year. It was Grant’s fourth losing season in five years at the helm. The Eagles haven’t reached the NCAA Tournament since 2009, and have made it just three times since leaving the Big East for the ACC in 2005.
Hurley told The Courant earlier this month that he thought Murray and Kimani Young, another top assistant, should be in the mix for some of college basketball’s bigger openings.
“For them to get the type of jobs that make financial sense for them, they need to be at a high level of college basketball,” Hurley said. “When you look at what Tommy Lloyd has done at Arizona, he had been at Gonzaga, understanding what it takes, those are the type of jobs those guys should be in the mix for.
“Sometimes, if we have a great March here and have a great run, players get drafted higher when you make a big run this time of year. Coaches get better jobs when you make a big run.”
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Hurley also said then that he’d have no problem with one of his assistants interviewing while the Huskies’ season is still alive. UConn is set to face Michigan State in the Sweet 16 on Friday in Washington, D.C. (9:45 p.m. tip).
“We don’t hold anyone back here,” he said. “I want them to get a job; look at what they’ve helped us do here. … I’m not afraid to lose people, I don’t hire ‘yes’ men, I hire talented people. I want those guys to get jobs, and I want those guys to get jobs where they have a chance to win.
“They’re compensated well enough here and we love working together, so it doesn’t make them fidgety or panicky.”
