Tough schedules, big rallies: How Bobby Hurley's Arizona State coaching record helped lead to extension
The move was well-timed. With the season ending, Hurley and his staff will be focusing on recruiting and perusing the transfer portal for new additions. Prospects want to know who their coach is going to be and adding newcomers was going to be tougher if the Sun Devils didn't have any assurance about the coaching situation.
Four seasons after Hurley's arrival, ASU removed itself from a dubious list: The Sun Devils had the fifth-longest active streak of an NCAA Tournament back-to-back drought among Power Six teams. The team had not made March Madness in back-to-back years since 1980-81. ASU was the only Pac-12 school to make the NCAA tournament in 2018 and 2019.
Hurley's three postseason appearances are second in school history to only Wulk while his win total ranks third in school history behind Wulk and Sendek, both of whom had longer tenures.The success ASU had this season was more rewarding given the struggles of the previous two years. ASU was just 11-14 in 2020-2021 with multiple stoppages due to COVID and injuries. There were also a handful of games in which the Sun Devils had just seven scholarship players available.
This season, ASU played six of 11 non-conference games away or at neutral sites. To put that in perspective UCLA and Arizona, the top two teams in the Pac-12 this season, each played just four non-conference games away from their home arenas., which has advanced to this year's Sweeet 16, as well as an 87-62 win over then No. 20 Michigan in the championships game of the Legends Classic in Brooklyn. That marked the school's ninth win over a ranked team in Hurley's tenure.
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