After his staff suffered a blowout loss at Duke in an exhibition sport final week, Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley stated “all jobs are open” for his rotation coming into Tuesday’s season opener in opposition to Idaho State in Tempe, Ariz.
“I believe (17-year-old freshman) Jayden Quaintance has sort of sealed a place, however exterior of that, I nonetheless suppose I am fairly large open proper now,” Hurley stated Thursday throughout a press convention. “Numerous will probably be decided over the subsequent 4 practices.”
Quaintance, a ahead, began in opposition to Duke together with senior wing BJ Freeman, senior guards Alston Mason and Adam Miller and junior middle Shawn Phillips Jr.
Quaintance completed with 11 factors, six rebounds and three assists in 31 minutes within the 103-47 loss to Duke, the place Hurley was a two-time nationwide champion and All-American as a guard from 1989-93.
Freeman, Mason, Miller and Phillips mixed for 14 factors, 9 rebounds and 5 assists.
Arizona State had solely 11 assists to go along with 18 turnovers.
“When the sport started to get out of hand there was no resistance to cease it,” Hurley stated. “There was simply not sufficient of a spine or a psychological toughness to try to cease the bleeding.”
Hurley is 155-131 coming into his tenth season at Arizona State. He’s 197-151 general together with his two years at Buffalo earlier than shifting to Tempe.
Idaho State is starting its sixth season below Ryan Looney, who’s 53-97 main the Bengals.
After Idaho State reached the semifinals of the Large Sky event final 12 months for the primary time since 2009, eight gamers departed by way of the switch portal and all-conference middle Brayden Parker exhausted his eligibility.
Looney signed 9 new scholarship athletes, seven of which beforehand performed at junior schools, Division II packages or NAIA colleges. He attracted two Division I transfers, together with guard Dylan Darling from Washington State.
“Most likely essentially the most gifted level guard we have had in my time in teaching at Idaho State,” Looney stated of Darling, who was a medical redshirt final season after beginning 4 video games as a freshman in 2022-23.
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