Bobby Hurley, the gritty college point guard who won national championships at Duke, is Arizona State's next basketball coach, charged with lifting an underachieving program to a higher level.
The hiring ends a two-week search that focused mostly on Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel, who withdrew from consideration shortly after the Blue Devils beat Wisconsin for the national championship. Hurley, however, had strong interest in ASU from the start.
In just a short time, he has established himself as one of college basketball's brighter young coaches. In two seasons at Buffalo, he went 42-20. This season, the Bulls went 23-10 and played in the program's first NCAA Tournament.