The victory snapped a two-game losing skid and kept the Sun Devils (12-3, 3-1) in the top tier of the Pac-12 Conference standings.
at Desert Financial in a contest which the Sun Devils led wire-to-wire.
But the 77 points were the most in a conference game thus far and the fifth most in any game. ASU shot 55.4% for the game, its second-highest single-game showing of the season with the only game in which ASU shot better being 60.4% against then No. 20 Michigan.One of the biggest voids in the ASU in recent years has been the lack of a true presence in the paint and too much reliance on guard play.
Hurley does substitute freely with much of that because of the intensity with which ASU plays defense. You have to give your starters a breather and keep fresh legs on the floor. But at one point Hurley swapped out his entire starting lineup, similar to a line change in hockey. He brought in Alonzo Gaffney and true freshman Duke Brennan as the bigs and Luther Muhammad, another true freshman in Austin Nunez and Jamiya Neal as guards. The Sun Devils didn't skip a beat.
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