OOC ranked teams entering 2021-22 (regular season) starting with 2015-16: Oregon (5-2), ASU (5-8), UCLA (4-8), Colorado (3-5), Arizona (3-6), Utah (2-5), Washington (2-8), USC (1-3), Washington State (1-3), Oregon State (0-1), California (0-5), Stanford (0-11).ĮARLY START: College hoops has changed in the past 30 years. His five wins over ranked out of conference teams entering 2021-22 tied for the league lead in his six years, and his 13 matchups also is the most in the league: Here is a breakdown of each team's record vs. THOSE FIVE WINS OVER OOC RANKED TEAMS: Bobby Hurley's ASU tenure has been marked by some great play in non-conference action during the regular season. ranked teams in his first five seasons, ASU's had six in the previous.wait for it.37 seasons.ĪSU OOC WINS VS. Prior to Coach Hurley's five OOC wins vs. 7 Maryland in the 1994 Maui Invitational.until it won at #2 Kansas on Dec.
24, 2017, Xavier win was the highest ranked non-conference team ASU had topped since it beat No. Add in freshman Jamiya Neal and Enoch Boakye and ASU started the season with a 10-man rotation, although only seven of them have played in the first four games.ĭOWN GOES RANKED TEAM: ASU has defeated eight ranked teams in Bobby Hurley's Sun Devil tenure, including five out of conference.
The Sun Devils added graduate transfer Marreon Jackson from Toledo (2020-21 MAC Player of the Year in his fifth year of college hoops), along with DI transfers DJ Horne (Illinois State) and Jay Heath (Boston College) and added junior college transfer Alonzo Gaffney, who started his career at Ohio State. Luther Muhammad sat last year to get a shoulder healthy after transferring from Ohio State. Bobby Hurley is in his seventh year and returns "super" senior Kimani Lawrence (for a fifth year), sophomore Jalen Graham and sophomore Marcus Bagley. HITTING RESET: The Sun Devils have many new faces and a trio of solid returners - like a lot of college basketball teams. He started 54 games in his first two years at Ohio State.
387 from the floor.Alonzo Gaffney leads team with eight blocks.Marreon Jackson's 18 assists is team best and he has played in 108 games and is 354-of-429 (.825) at the free throw eshman Enoch Boakye has 18 rebounds in just over 38 minutes.Luther Muhammad has started 57-of-69 career games. 643 from the floor (27-of-42) with three double-doubles.Jay Heath and Jalen Graham each missed the first two games - and many practices - because of COVID protocols.ASU is holding opponents to. THREE-DOT DATA THROUGH FOUR: Kimani Lawrence has been outsanding in the first four games averaging 16.0 points and 10 rebounds while shooting.
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18 that had 10 lead changes and six ties. 11) and then falling in a tough 65-63 game at San Diego State on Nov. ASU's two losses have been by three points total, losing on a 65-footer to UC Riverside (66-65 on Nov. GET A SHOT AT THE BEST FROM 2020-21: The 2021-22 Sun Devil men's basketball squad (2-2) is in the early stages of a solid gauntlet of early season games as it travels to the Bad Boy Motors Battle 4 Atlantis in Paradise Island (Bahamas) and faces defending NCAA champion Baylor in the first game on Wednesday, Nov. Bad Boy Motors Battle 4 Atlantis in Paradise Island (Bahamas)