TEMPE — The rivalry between the Arizona State Sun Devils and the Arizona Wildcats dates back decades and has seen both teams play intense games across different sports, but football is typically the one that receives the most attention.
Men’s basketball is on track to creep up on football, as former head coach Bobby Hurley injected life into the two games between the programs on a yearly basis, with the hiring of Randy Bennett serving as a vessel to take the rivalry to another level.
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Arizona State has won only two games against the powerhouse Wildcats this decade, but Hurley’s teams have been tightly contested in most of those games.
Now, the stakes are raised – with Bennett’s efficient, no-nonsense philosophy placing a sharp decline on Arizona’s margin of error in the two matchups – next season and beyond.
Bennett is quite familiar with Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd, who served as an assistant at Gonzaga for over two decades. The two elite coaches will almost certainly be locked in a chess match every time they face off…