Every rising coach can point to a game or a stretch that shows it has arrived and has to be taken seriously.
For former Duke star Bobby Hurley, he could pick last year’s upset of Kansas or take this one instead because Arizona State beat #1 Kansas 80-76 Saturday.
He has a very different team this year which suggests that Arizona State isn’t going away and also, unlike most of the PAC-12, doesn’t suck.
And perhaps best of all, the crowd support suggests that the fans have bought in. The descriptions sound, frankly, like Cameron.