BJ Freeman, Arizona State’s leading scorer this season, is no longer with the program, coach Bobby Hurley confirmed after Sunday’s 66-54 road victory over Kansas State.
The guard had averaged 13.7 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game over 25 games (22 starts) in his first season with the Sun Devils.
“It was unfortunate that it’s coming to this,” Hurley said. “He’s our leading scorer, very productive player for us. It’s just, we had too many instances of either player or coach conduct with BJ and he was already suspended once so it was a really hard decision to make.”
Freeman was suspended for Arizona State’s 86-73 road loss to Oklahoma State on Feb. 9 because of conduct detrimental to the team before returning.
The news first broke before Arizona State (13-14, 4-12), second-to-last in the Big 12, played at Kansas State on Sunday afternoon.
Freeman transferred to Arizona State from Milwaukee, where he was a two-time All-Horizon League selection in his first two seasons of college basketball. He averaged a conference-high 21.1 points per game last season and has career averages of 17.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 84 games (70 starts).
–Field Level Media
