Bobby Hurley won’t return to ASU basketball

Bobby Hurley shouldn’t be anticipated to return to Arizona State on a brand new contract after ending his eleventh season because the Sun Devils males’s basketball coach, The Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman reported Monday.

On3’s Pete Nakos confirmed Goodman’s report, although SunDevilSource.com’s Chris Karpman added Hurley and ASU athletic director Graham Rossini nonetheless plan to meet after the Big 12 Tournament to talk about their future.

Hurley’s contract is about to expire on the finish of June.

ASU (16-15, 7-11 Big 12) nonetheless has at the very least yet another sport to go this 12 months with a Big 12 Tournament matchup towards Baylor tipping off at 9:30 am Tuesday.

The Sun Devils began a contract 12 months for the pinnacle coach with a 9-2 file earlier than dropping 9 of their subsequent 11 video games. They gained three of their subsequent 4 video games, together with an upset win over then-No. 13 Texas Techearlier than two losses to Baylor and TCU in Texas shut the door on at-large NCAA Tournament hopes.

Although ASU supplied Arizona with a number of the Wildcats’ closest video games throughout their 23-0 begin to the season (whereas Arizona was ranked No. 1 for each), Hurley has misplaced his final seven video games towards the in-state rival.

The solely ASU win within the final 13 matchups towards present Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd — he took over earlier than the 2021-22 season — got here when Desmond Cambridge hit a buzzer-beater from past halfcourt in 2022-23.

Hurley informed The Athletic’s Doug Haller in February that he believe he’s in his prime as a coach, and he doubled down on that concept after the mid-February win over Texas Tech.

“I don’t care about doubters, what people say and all that stuff,” Hurley stated. “I’ve coached towards a number of the greatest coaches within the nation. I’ve been doing it now for 11 years right here and so I really feel like I’m in my component, that I might go toe-to-toe with anyone, so I’m very assured in my skills.

“For me to have that confidence, you need to have guys like I have and the players that I played tonight. When you have guys that fight and battle like that, then there’s going to be a level of confidence on my end, too, in my abilities.”

Bobby Hurley’s ASU tenure in evaluate

Hurley’s coaching record at ASU heading into the Big 12 Tournament is 184-166 (.526) over these 11 seasons. He owns the second-most wins in program historical past, behind Ned Wulk’s 405-257 file from 1958 to 1982.

ASU made three NCAA Tournament appearances below Hurley however by no means reached the second spherical.

The spotlight of his tenure was the “Guard U” workforce in his third season (2017-18) led by Tra Holder, Kodi Justice and Shannon Evans. That workforce began 12-0 with wins at No. 2 Kansas and on a impartial flooring towards No. 15 Xavier.

It reached No. 3 within the AP Top 25 rankings, which tied the best mark in program historical past. That group misplaced 4 out of its final 5 regular-season video games, its first convention match sport and a First Four sport to Syracuse in Dayton.

Hurley reached at the very least 20 wins within the following two seasons, however momentum was halted as COVID-19 prevented a possible NCAA Tournament look. Since then, ASU has gained greater than 14 video games in a season simply twice (23 in 2022-23, 16 in 2025-26).

The 2024-25 squad that featured two extremely regarded freshmen in Jayden Quaintance and Joson Sanon sputtered out to shut the season, main to each gamers transferring after additionally coping with accidents of their lone seasons at ASU.

That workforce misplaced 17 of its last 20 video games, together with a loss to Arizona at residence, the place Hurley known as his workforce away from a postgame handshake line and elected not to shake hands with Lloyd after gamers from each side have been ejected late.