Robert Emmet Hurley (born July 31, 1947) is an American basketball coach.
At the now-closed St.
Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, Hurley amassed 26 state championships in 39 years as a coach.
On February 2, 2011, Hurley became the tenth coach in high school history to win 1000 games.
Five of his teams have gone undefeated.
On April 5, 2010, he was announced as the only coach to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame that year and only the third high school coach in history to be so honored; he was formally inducted on August 13 of that year.
He is featured in the documentary The Street Stops Here.
Hurley is the father of Bobby Hurley, a former All-American point guard at Duke and the head basketball coach at Arizona State, and Dan Hurley, the head coach of the University of Connecticut.