Bobby Hurley fired by Arizona State after blowout loss in Big 12 Tournament
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Bobby Hurley’s tenure as Arizona State head coach ended with a thud, with Hurley being fired shortly after a 91-42 loss to Iowa State in the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday.
Not too long after the Sun Devils’ season ended with a blowout defeat in Kansas City, Arizona State pulled the plug on the Hurley Era in Tempe after 11 seasons as head coach. The 12th-seeded Sun Devils’ 49-point loss to the 5th-seeded Cyclones put an emphatic end to any kind of extended run this week in the Big !2 Tournament, and with Arizona State’s season over, the school decided to do what had been rumored for days involving Hurley.
Hurley finished his decade-plus time in Tempe with a 185-167 overall record and a 90-115 mark in conference play. According to Sun Devil Source, the 54-year-old former Duke star point guard will go on “paid administrative leave through the remainder of his contract in June.”
The brother of UConn head coach Dan Hurley, Bobby Hurley led Duke to back-to-back national championships in 1991 and 1992 before being drafted by the Sacramento Kings with the 7th overall pick in 1993. He played 5 total seasons in the NBA before entering the coaching world.
After assistant jobs at Wagner and Rhode Island, Hurley took his first head coaching job at Buffalo in 2013. After 2 seasons there, Hurley was hired at Ariona State, where he lasted for over a decade until the end finally came on Wednesday.
Now, after never achieving the NCAA Tournament success it hoped for under Hurley, Arizona State will turn its attention to finding a successor.
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Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
