New ASU coach Bobby Hurley’s career: By the Numbers
Apr 9, 2015, 11:10 PM | Updated: 11:10 pm
Arizona State named Bobby Hurley its new head basketball coach on Thursday.
Hurley spent the last two seasons as the Buffalo Bulls head coach. He will be replacing long-time head coach Herb Sendek, who was fired last month.
Hurley played four seasons at Duke, starting in 1989. He was then selected No. 7 overall in the 1993 draft by the Sacramento Kings. Hurley also played for the Vancouver Grizzlies and lasted five total seasons in the NBA.
He joined his brother Dan Hurley’s staff at Wagner College in New York as an assistant coach in 2010 and spent two seasons with the Seahawks. He then followed his brother to Rhode Island where he was an associate head coach in 2012. In 2013, Buffalo decided to give him his first chance at being a head coach.
Here’s Hurley’s career as a coach and player, by the numbers:
23
This past season, Hurley led the Bulls 23 wins. It tied the most wins in a season ever by the university. 2004-05 was the only other season Buffalo won 23 games.
1
Buffalo made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in its history last March. As a 12-seed against the fifth-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers, they nearly pulled the upset, but lost 68-62.
2
In 2013-14, Buffalo won its first of two MAC East division titles. The Bulls weren’t able to capitalize on their good position in the MAC tournament the first year, but won the school’s first ever tournament title last season.
.677
In his 62 games as a head coach, Hurley has a .677 winning percentage (42-20).
134
This is the first time in 30 years that ASU has hired someone with less than 134 games of prior head coaching experience. Hurley has 62 games to his name. Steve Patterson got his first head coaching gig in 1985 with the Sun Devils and lasted three and a half seasons. He posted a 48-56 record.
3
Hurley made it to the NCAA national championship game three times in his time as Duke’s point guard. The Blue Devils won it all in 1991 and 1992. He was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player in 1992 and was a first-team consensus All-American in the 1992-93 season, when he averaged 17 points and 8.2 assists per game.
1,076
Records are meant to be broken, but maybe not Hurley’s 1,076 career assists record at the NCAA level that still stands today. With Duke, Hurley averaged 12.4 points, 7.7 assists and 1.45 steals per game, while he shot 40.5 percent from the three-point line.
1-1
Hurley faced off against the Arizona Wildcats twice when he was a Blue Devil. Duke won the first meeting 78-76 and the second matchup was a double overtime thriller that Arizona pulled out at home 103-96.
269
In his five seasons at the professional level, Hurley played in 269 games with the Kings and the Grizzlies. He started 62 games (all with the Kings) and averaged 3.8 points and 3.3 assists per game. He was waived by the Grizzlies in 1999.
