With the collegiate basketball offseason incoming, so is the onslaught of changes that will reshape the next year of college basketball until we do it again next March.Â
Barring the transfer portal, the biggest storyline of every offseason is the coaching carousel, which will see teams of varying statures attempt to pluck the next budding coach in an attempt to kickstart their own respective dynasties, and this season may very well see a longtime Kansas coach selected for this exact role.Â
Arizona State might be looking at KU associate head coach to replace Bobby Hurley
Since joining the program as a video coordinator in 2016, former Jayhawk guard Jeremy Case has experienced a meteoric rise to the top. After five years as video coordinator, Case was promoted to assistant coach in 2021 and was handed an associate head coach title that October. Â
According to Jeff Goodman of the Field of 68, Case has interviewed for the vacant role at fellow Big 12 school Arizona State.Â
Kansas assistant coach Jeremy Case interviewed for the Arizona State opening, source told @TheFieldOf68.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 17, 2026
Will be interesting to see if 1) ASU AD Graham Rossini makes a strong push for Randy Bennett and 2) If Bennett leaves Saint Mary’s at this point in his career.
Case would be tasked with a monumental first head coaching job
Case’s career had seen a continued upward trajectory from assistant roles at Southeast Missouri State, Houston Baptist University, and with the Jayhawks, but with the Sun Devils, it would be his first head coaching role at the college level.Â
If Case were nominated as the next Arizona State head coach, he would be stepping into a program that has not seen a ticket to the Big Dance since the 2022/23 season and a progression past the first round since Herb Sendek in the 2013/14 season.Â
Hurley experienced a tumultuous time in Tempe, Arizona, marking a 185-167 record with two NCAA Tournament appearances and one in the First Four. Hurley saw heights that peaked the Sun Devils as high as No. 3 in the nation in the 2017/18 season, but his last three years at the helm ended in a 44-54 combined record that included a 17-16 stamp in the 2025/26 campaign.Â
Funnily enough, one of Arizona State’s two wins against ranked opposition this season came against the Jayhawks in a bizarre 70-60 takedown, which saw head coach Bill Self ejected minutes in and forced assistant coach Jacque Vaughn to handle coaching duties for the rest of the night.
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