Arizona State’s Bobby Hurley sends team to locker room early after opponent’s ‘no class’ behavior, ejections

The last seconds of Saturday's Arizona State-Arizona game took a small portion to decorativeness owed to immoderate play connected the tribunal and the benches.

With astir 30 seconds near successful the crippled and the Wildcats up 81-72, Arizona's Caleb Love got tangled up with BJ Freeman. The Sun Devil past headbutted Love.

Love and Freeman were ejected, but arsenic the particulate continued to settee betwixt some teams, ASU caput manager Bobby Hurley ordered each the players connected his seat to spell to the locker room.

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Bobby Hurley and Tommy Lloyd (Getty Images/Imagn)

As the Wildcats dribbled retired the last seconds, Hurley ordered his adjunct coaches to permission the bench, leaving conscionable him connected the seat and 5 Sun Devils connected the court.

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Seconds earlier the accustomed handshake line, Hurley past waved disconnected Arizona manager Tommy Lloyd, and some squads went into their respective locker rooms.

Hurley was asked astir the ordeal and said helium had nary prime but to nonstop his players to the locker country aboriginal aft his opponents showed "no class."

"If you look close adjacent our bench, it was relentless changeless chatter from a mates of the Arizona players that was not being policed properly. Of course, they’re going to beryllium blessed with winning, but it was done with nary class, successful my opinion," Hurley said aft the game. 

"Words that were said backmost and distant led to the infinitesimal wherever Freeman mislaid his cool, due to the fact that of the changeless speech that was allowed to spell on. I had to marque a pugnacious determination successful the champion involvement of our squad to get them into the locker country truthful determination would beryllium nary further incidental the remainder of the crippled and successful the handshake line."

Arizona State Sun Devils caput manager Bobby Hurley instructs his squad to spell to the locker country earlier the extremity of a Big 12 men's hoops crippled against the Arizona Wildcats astatine Desert Financial Arena Feb. 1, 2025, successful Tempe. (Cheryl Evans/The Republic/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Hurley past finished his property league with a parting shot, possibly astatine Love.

"I bash get a ballot for the All-Conference, and I tin archer you who’s not getting a vote," helium said.

Lloyd called the ordeal "disappointing connected each sides."

"We privation to beryllium a programme that erstwhile pugnacious things happen, we privation to respond with class. I don’t cognize if we did oregon didn’t, but conscionable a pugnacious infinitesimal successful an affectional game. I got a batch of respect for Bobby and Arizona State," Lloyd said.

The Wildcats improved to 15-6 connected the play and 9-1 successful Big 12 play, portion the Sun Devils are 12-9 wide and 3-7 against league opponents.

Arizona State Sun Devils caput manager Bobby Hurley removes his necktie during a crippled against the Arizona Wildcats Feb. 1, 2025, astatine Desert Financial Arena successful Tempe, Ariz. (Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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The teams volition conscionable successful a rematch March 4.

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