UConn's Dangerfield hoping for the best as protests hit her hometown

With the UConn women's basketball team not expected to practice today, this is a day when sophomore guard Crystal Dangerfield can send her hopes and thoughts to her hometown.

National media has converged on Murfreesboro, Tennessee to report on White Lives Matter rallies in Murfreesboro and nearby Shelbyville.

Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro canceled campus events days before the scheduled white nationalist rallies and residence halls were expected to be locked down. Other steps were being taken so the events in Murfreesboro are not a repeat of what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia when Heather Heyer was fatally injured when a car was driven into a crowd of counter protestors, two law enforcement officers perished in a helicopter crash as they monitored the events in Charlottesville from the air. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency when protests and counter protests turned violent.

After Thursday's practice, I spoke with Dangerfield for about three minutes and at the end of the interview, I asked Dangerfield for her thoughts on situation currently taking place in Murfreesboro.

"First, I am hoping nothing bad happens, friends and family who are there I hope they stay safe," Dangerfield said. "My take on it, everybody is opinionated, everybody feels how they are going to feel, you have a right to protest so they can have that."