@SunDevilHoops June Notebook; Italy, Spain and Many Other Things

Coach Bobby Hurley met with the media on May 31 and discussed a bunch of topics, one of them was the team taking its first foreign tour in four seasons, as it will travel to Rome and Barcelona in early August and play three games. It will mark ASU's foreign tour since it went to China in August of 2013. A new NCAA rule allows for all transfers to travel, so ASU can expect to have 13 players on the trip. Other notes, quotes and things to know heading into the summer below...
 

Bobby Hurley Announces Spain and Italy Trip https://t.co/cRlMNclXB7

— Sun Devil MBB (@SunDevilHoops) May 31, 2017

NOT MANY CAN SAY THIS: As rosters become complete for 2017-18, Arizona State will have a rare and solid note to start, as its backcourt will have two 1,000-point career scorers. Tra Holder has 1,215 points in 97 Sun Devil games (12.5 ppg.), while Shannon Evans has 1,248 career points (13.1 ppg.), with 754 of them coming at Buffalo from 2013-15. Combined the duo has made 764 total field goals, 277 three-pointers, 658 free throws and has dropped 2,463 collegiate points in 192 career games.
 

Bobby Hurley hopes the #Sundevils are ready to turn the corner. It's starts this summer with a European Vacation. https://t.co/mxVikQcjbv pic.twitter.com/R7LAlVNyRo

— Mark McClune (@MarkMcClune) June 1, 2017

TOP SCORERS COMING BACK: ASU has two of the top five scorers in the Pac-12 returning next year, as Tra Holder (16.2 ppg) and Shannon Evans (15.0) averaged more than 31 points per game last year. Only Reid Travis (Stanford), Allonzo Trier (Arizona) and Stephan Thompson (Oregon State) averaged more than Tra and Shannon last year in overall games.
 
PAC-12 TOP RETURNING SCORERS IN 2017-18
17.4-Reid Travis, Stanford
17.2-Allonzo Trier, Arizona
16.3-Stephen Thompson, Oregon State
16.2-Tra Holder, Arizona State
15.0-Shannon Evans II, Arizona State
 

Quick ??? for Coach Hurley with @CBS5AZ pic.twitter.com/L3Tt0dkG1h

— Sun Devil MBB (@SunDevilHoops) May 31, 2017

SUN DEVILS IN LAS VEGAS: Arizona State will make its third trip for a preseason tournament to Las Vegas in November of 2017 for the Continental Tire Invitational, as it played at Orleans Arena in Orleans Arena in November of 2012 when it beat Arkansas (83-68 on Nov. 23) and then fell to Creighton 87-73 (Nov. 24). In 2004, it lost to UTEP 66-65 (Nov. 26) but beat Vanderbilt 87-68 (Nov. 27).
 

#ASU MBB Bobby Hurley on 2018 postseason: "I have a lot of confidence we have a chance to be in that position." https://t.co/EZILJCFfT6

— jeffmetcalfe (@jeffmetcalfe) June 1, 2017

TWO IN TOP-100: Two of ASU's newcomers in 2017-18 are ESPN top-100 players. Kimani Lawrence (New Hampton School/Providence, RI) is a 6-6 guard who is No. 54, whole Remy Martin (Sierra Canyon/Chatsworth, Calif.) is a 6-0 lead guard and is No. 82 in the rankings.

 

Our @ASU_Hoops talked to Bobby Hurley in-depth about recruiting, transfers overall trajectory of basketball program https://t.co/UtBoKaavvT

— DevilsDigest.com (@DevilsDigest) June 1, 2017

ASU's 6-10 newcomer @dequonlake has been named an NJCAA All-American led Iowa Western with 13.5 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game

— DevilsDigest.com (@DevilsDigest) June 5, 2017