Bobby Hurley

{{short description|American basketball player and coach (born 1971)}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Bobby Hurley

| image = Bobby Hurley coaching, 2019-03-22 (cropped) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Hurley coaching in 2019

| alt = Hurley standing at the sidelines of a basketball game

| team = Arizona State Sun Devils

| position = Head coach

| league = Big 12 Conference

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|6|28}}

| birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lbs = 165

| high_school = St. Anthony
(Jersey City, New Jersey)

| college = Duke (1989–1993)

| draft_year = 1993

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 7

| draft_team = Sacramento Kings

| career_start = 1993

| career_end = 1998

| career_number = 7, 11

| career_position = Point guard

| coach_start = 2010

| coach_end =

| years1 = {{nbay|1993|start}}–{{nbay|1997|end}}

| team1 = Sacramento Kings

| years2 = {{nbay|1997|end}}

| team2 = Vancouver Grizzlies

| cyears1 = 2010–2012

| cteam1 = Wagner (assistant)

| cyears2 = 2012–2013

| cteam2 = Rhode Island (associate HC)

| cyears3 = 2013–2015

| cteam3 = Buffalo

| cyears4 = 2015–present

| cteam4 = Arizona State

| highlights = As player:

2× NCAA champion (1991, 1992)
NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1992)
Consensus first-team All-America (1993)
Third-team All-American – AP, UPI (1992)
First-team All-ACC (1993)
Second-team All-ACC (1992)
Third-team All-ACC (1991)
No. 11 retired by Duke Blue Devils
NCAA assists leader
McDonald's All-American Co-MVP (1989)
First-team Parade All-American (1989)
Fourth-team Parade All-American (1988)

As head coach:

MAC tournament champion (2015)
MAC regular season champion (2015)
2× MAC East Division champion (2014, 2015)

| stat1label = Points

| stat1value = 1,032 (3.8 ppg)

| stat2label = Rebounds

| stat2value = 283 (1.1 rpg)

| stat3label = Assists

| stat3value = 880 (3.3 apg)

| medal_templates = {{MedalSport|Men's basketball}}

{{MedalCountry|{{USA}}}}

}}

Robert Hurley (born June 28, 1971) is an American college basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils. He was previously the head coach at the University at Buffalo.

As a college senior, he was a unanimous first-team All-America for the Duke Blue Devils, with whom he won consecutive national championships. He is the all-time leader in assists in NCAA basketball. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Sacramento Kings and Vancouver Grizzlies from 1993 to 1999.

Early life

Hurley was born to Bob Hurley Sr. and Christine Hurley on June 28, 1971, in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he was raised with his siblings Dan and Melissa.{{cite web |last1=Prajapati |first1=Salim |title=Bobby Hurley Three Children and Family Members |url=https://sportslulu.com/bobby-hurley-children |website=Sportslulu |access-date=1 July 2023}} Hurley attended Our Lady of Mercy grammar school in Jersey City.

Playing career

File:Bobby Hurley, The Jersey Journal 1988-12-13 page 89.jpg

Hurley was a basketball star at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, where his father was the longtime coach. While at St. Anthony from 1985 to 1989, Hurley led the team to four consecutive Parochial B state titles. In his senior year he averaged 20 points, 8 assists and 3 steals, as St. Anthony racked up a 32–0 record, the school's first Tournament of champions crown, and the No. 1 ranking in the United States. In his high school career the team's overall record with Hurley as point guard was 115–5.{{cite magazine |url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004534/index.htm |title=Greetings From Jersey City |author=Telander, Rick |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=November 23, 1992 |access-date=November 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415234829/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004534/index.htm |archive-date=April 15, 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/hssports/century/stories/bballtop10.html |title=Boys Basketball All-Century Top 10 |work=The Star-Ledger |access-date=November 12, 2008}}

= Duke =

Hurley was a point guard for coach Mike Krzyzewski's Duke University team from 1989 to 1993. He was a first-team All-America in 1993, went to the Final Four three times, and helped lead the Blue Devils to back-to-back national championships in 1991 and 1992 with All American teammates Christian Laettner and Grant Hill, earning Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors in 1992. Hurley remains the NCAA all-time assists leader with 1076 assists, and Duke's single game assist leader with 16 (against Florida State on February 24, 1993). His Duke jersey number 11 was retired in 1993.{{cite web|url=http://www.dukeupdate.com/Legends/hurley.html |title=Bobby Hurley |work =Duke Update |access-date=November 12, 2008}} In 2002, Hurley was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team as one of the fifty greatest players in Atlantic Coast Conference history. In 2006, Hurley, who is of Polish descent through his mother, was inducted into the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://polishsportshof.com/inductees/basketball/bobby-hurley/ |title=Bobby Hurley « National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame and Museum |access-date=October 27, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815153422/http://polishsportshof.com/inductees/basketball/bobby-hurley/ |archive-date=August 15, 2012 }} At Duke, Hurley was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Coincidentally, Bobby Hurley played against his younger brother Dan in an NCAA Tournament game, when Duke squared off against Seton Hall.

Hurley appeared in the 1994 feature film Blue Chips, where he played for the Indiana team under coach Bobby Knight.

= NBA =

Hurley was selected by the Sacramento Kings as the seventh pick in the 1993 NBA draft. He signed a shoe contract with a new shoe company ITZ (In The Zone), which was sold at Foot Locker exclusively.{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/vault/1993/08/16/129105/triumph-of-the-swoosh-with-a-keen-sense-of-the-power-of-sports-and-a-genius-for-mythologizing-athletes-to-help-sell-sneakers-nike-bestrides-the-world-of-sport-like-a-marketing-colossus |title=Triumph of the Swoosh With a keen sense of the power of sports... |work=Sports Illustrasted |access-date=July 6, 2015}}

On December 12, 1993, while Hurley was returning home following a game in his rookie season, he was involved in a car accident. His SUV was broadsided by a station wagon. Hurley was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from his vehicle, and suffered life-threatening injuries.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/30/sports/driver-guilty-in-hurley-case.html |title=Driver Guilty in Hurley Case |work=The New York Times |date=December 30, 1994 |access-date=November 12, 2008}} Kings teammate Mike Peplowski was driving five minutes behind Hurley and was among the first on the scene to render immediate aid.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/21/sports/basketball-bobby-hurley-s-road-back.html|title=BASKETBALL; Bobby Hurley's Road Back|last=Araton|first=Harvey|date=October 21, 1994|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=May 16, 2016}}

Hurley returned to the NBA for the 1994–95 season and played four more years beyond that. He was traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies on February 18, 1998, and played in 27 games for the Grizzlies.{{cite web |title=Grizzlies Waive Bobby Hurley |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grizzlies-waive-bobby-hurley/ |website=CBS News |access-date=December 24, 2021 |date=January 26, 1999}} Hurley was waived by the Grizzlies on January 25, 1999.

Coaching

Hurley was hired as a scout by the Philadelphia 76ers in 2003.{{cite web |date=September 25, 2003 |title=Sixers add former Duke standout to staff |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/sixers/2003-09-25-hurley-sixers_x.htm |access-date=November 12, 2008 |work=USA Today}}

On April 13, 2010, Wagner College announced that Hurley was hired as an assistant coach for the men's basketball team. Hurley joined his younger brother Dan Hurley's coaching staff. Dan Hurley had been hired as Wagner's head coach on April 6, 2010. In 2012, the Hurleys took coaching positions at Rhode Island.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/sports/ncaabasketball/dan-hurley-leaving-wagner-to-coach-rhode-island.html|title=Dan Hurley Leaving Wagner to Coach Rhode Island|first=Pete|last=Thamel|author-link=Pete Thamel|date=March 20, 2012|work=NYTimes}}

On March 26, 2013, Hurley was named the head coach of the University at Buffalo (Buffalo Bulls), replacing Reggie Witherspoon.{{cite news|last=Goodman|first=Jeff|title=Bobby Hurley hired at Buffalo|url=http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/21953145/bobby-hurley-hired-at-buffalo|access-date=March 26, 2013|newspaper=CBS Sports|date=March 26, 2013}} Hurley coached the 2014–15 Bulls team to their first NCAA tournament appearance.

On April 9, 2015, Hurley was hired as head coach at Arizona State. In his first conference game with the Sun Devils, he gained notoriety when he got ejected for 2 technical fouls in 15 seconds for arguing with the officials against the rival Arizona Wildcats.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/watch-bobby-hurley-explodes-for-2016s-best-ejection-of-the-year-so-far/|title=WATCH: Bobby Hurley explodes for 2016's best ejection of the year so far|website=CBSSports.com|date=January 3, 2016 |access-date=November 18, 2023}} After he got ejected, he encouraged the crowd to continue to taunt the officials.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.si.com/college/2016/01/04/arizona-state-pac-12-bobby-hurley-ejection-john-higgins|title=Bobby Hurley sets bad precedent with ejection|first=Pete|last=Thamel |author-link=Pete Thamel |magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=January 3, 2016 }} Following a 15–17 first season at Arizona State, Hurley's contract was extended through 2021.{{Cite web|url=http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/ncaab/asu/2016/04/28/asu-basketball-sun-devils-extending-bobby-hurleys-contract/83654276/|title=ASU basketball: Sun Devils extending Bobby Hurley's contract|website=azcentral|access-date=May 16, 2016}}

The 2016–2017 season showed improvements and ASU improved its roster with transfers and a few recruits.

In the 2017–2018 season Hurley would lead Arizona State to their first 12–0 start and sweep their non-conference schedule. Along the way, ASU beat Top-10 teams Kansas and Xavier and were ranked #3 by the Associated Press. Despite their early success, the Sun Devils struggled mightily in Pac-12 conference play, going only 8–10 and earning the 9th seed in the Pac-12 tournament, where they were defeated in the first round by the 8th seeded Colorado Buffaloes. Nevertheless, ASU still earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament and faced Syracuse in a First Four matchup in Dayton. The Orange then beat the Sun Devils 60–56, thus ending their season. Hurley's squad finished 20–12.

On December 22, 2018, Hurley led the Sun Devils to its first home win (and second win ever) against a #1 NCAA ranked team when they defeated the Kansas Jayhawks.{{Cite web|title=Kansas vs. Arizona State score: The No. 18 Sun Devils upset the No. 1 Jayhawks, who lost for the first time this season|url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/kansas-vs-arizona-state-score-the-no-18-sun-devils-upset-the-no-1-jayhawks-who-lost-for-the-first-time-this-season/ |website=CBS Sports |first=Kyle |last=Boone |date=December 23, 2018 |access-date=December 16, 2023 |language=en}}

Horse racing

A fan of thoroughbred horse racing, Hurley owned Songandaprayer who won the 2001 Fountain of Youth Stakes.{{cite web |author=Nobles, Charlie |date=February 18, 2001 |title=HORSE RACING; Hurley's Long-Shot Horse Holds On to Beat Favorite |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/sports/horse-racing-hurley-s-long-shot-horse-holds-on-to-beat-favorite.html |access-date=November 12, 2008 |work=The New York Times}} He was also co-owner with breeder with Nik Visger.{{cite web |author=Rosenblatt, Richard |date=August 6, 2006 |title=Former basketball star Hurley has high hopes of winning Haskell horse race |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/horses/2006-08-04-haskell-hurley_x.htm |access-date=November 12, 2008 |work=USA Today}} In December 2009 he was sued by PNC Bank for defaulting on a $1 million loan that was used to purchase Songandaprayer, who was trained by Eddie Plesa Jr.{{cite web |last=Patton |first=Janet |date=December 12, 2009 |title=Bank sues ex-Duke star Hurley over loan |url=http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/1056451.html |access-date=December 12, 2009 |publisher=Lexington Herald-Leader}} He owns Devil Eleven Stables, which went into foreclosure in 2010,{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/142277/devil-elevens-florida-farm-in-foreclosure |access-date=March 25, 2024 |website=www.bloodhorse.com|title=Devil Eleven's Florida Farm in Foreclosure|date=May 14, 2010}} and was sold in 2011.

Personal life

Hurley married Leslie Palceski on November 2, 1995. They have two daughters and a son: Cameron, Sydney, and Bobby.

In May 1992, he was arrested and charged with drunk driving in Durham County, North Carolina. He pleaded guilty later that month to a lesser charge of careless and reckless driving and was given a six-month suspended sentence, a $500 fine and a 90-day suspension of his driver's license.{{cite news |title=Duke guard Bobby Hurley guilty of reckless driving |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oshkosh-northwestern-duke-guard-bobb/129251982/ |access-date=1 August 2023 |work=The Oshkosh Northwestern |agency=Associated Press |date=22 May 1992 |pages=20}}

Head coaching record

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Buffalo Bulls

| conference = Mid-American Conference

| startyear = 2013

| endyear = 2015

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = division

| season = 2013–14

| name = Buffalo

| overall = 19–10

| conference = 13–5

| confstanding = 1st (East)

| postseason =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = confboth

| season = 2014–15

| name = Buffalo

| overall = 23–10

| conference = 12–6

| confstanding = T–1st (East)

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Buffalo

| overall = {{Winning percentage|42|20|record=y}}

| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|25|11|record=y}}

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Arizona State Sun Devils

| conference = Pac-12 Conference

| startyear = 2015

| endyear = 2024

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2015–16

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 15–17

| conference = 5–13

| confstanding = 11th

| postseason =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2016–17

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 15–18

| conference = 7–11

| confstanding = 8th

| postseason =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2017–18

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 20–12

| conference = 8–10

| confstanding = T–8th

| postseason = NCAA Division I First Four

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2018–19

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 23–11

| conference = 12–6

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

| ranking = no

| ranking2 =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2019–20

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 20–11

| conference = 11–7

| confstanding = T–3rd

| postseason =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2020–21

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 11–14

| conference = 7–10

| confstanding = 9th

| postseason =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2021–22

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 14–17

| conference = 10–10

| confstanding =8th

| postseason =

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}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2022–23

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 23–13

| conference = 11–9

| confstanding = T–5th

| postseason = NCAA Division I Round of 64

| ranking =

| ranking2 =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 2023–24

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 14–18

| conference = 8–12

| confstanding = T–9th

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Arizona State Sun Devils

| conference = Big 12 Conference

| startyear = 2024

| endyear =

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| championship =

| season = 2024–25

| name = Arizona State

| overall = 13–20

| conference = 4–16

| confstanding = 15th

| postseason = CBC First round

| ranking =

| ranking2 =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Arizona State

| overall = {{Winning percentage|168|151|record=y}}

| confrecord = {{Winning percentage|83|104|record=y}}

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{{CBB Yearly Record End

| overall = {{Winning percentage|210|171|record=y}}

}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20150315004331/http://ubbulls.com/sports/mbkb/coaches/hurley_bobby Buffalo Bulls bio]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20010212053619/http://nba.com/playerfile/bio/bobby_hurley.html NBA bio]

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