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It’s never one thing when you’re in a losing streak. It’s a lot of little things that add up. Such is the case for the Arizona State men’s basketball team, which has lost seven of its last eight games after a promising start to the season.
The Sun Devils sit at 10-9 overall and 1-5 in Big 12 play heading into the Jan. 24 game against Cincinnati (10-9, 2-4) at Desert Financial Arena.
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One particular play summed up the 75-63 loss to West Virginia on Jan. 21 at Desert Financial Arena. The Sun Devils led 37-32, and West Virginia had the ball with 22 seconds left in the first half. The Sun Devils took a timeout, and coach Bobby Hurley told his team that once it got late in the shot clock, to foul in the backcourt before the Mountaineers could attempt a 3-pointer.
ASU had a foul to give, and none of the players in the game had a foul. Sophomore guard Noah Meeusen was on the ball defending West Virginia’s best player, Honor Huff, as the shot clock wound down. He didn’t foul, and Huff ended up draining a long 3-pointer at the buzzer. Instead of going into the locker room up by five points and feeling good about that half, ASU was up by just two, and it was West Virginia feeling good about where it stood.
“We talked about taking a foul at the end of the half,” Hurley said. “This is why things that we might draw up on a board in a huddle don’t get executed sometimes, because there isn’t a commitment to listening, and we lack discipline in terms of listening to some of the things I am trying to get across. So my voice is not working with this group, and that was a great example of it.”
Hurley is rounding out his 11th year as the program’s leader. He is in the final year of his contract, and with this being the third straight season of disappointing results, it would appear his time in Tempe is coming to a close.
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Hurley wears his emotions. That can be both good and bad. He has never been one to mince words.
Asked after the game if it was the most dejected he has…
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