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As Arizona State guard Moe Odum prepares for the 2025-26 season, the senior stressed the importance of letting things come to him when it pertains to making plays as a point guard.
“The biggest thing I’ve learned from (Bobby Hurley) is to not make the spectacular plays every time and just make the simple read and it will fall in your lap,” Odum told ESPN’s Chancellor Johnson at Big 12 Media Day on Wednesday.
Odum was very effective as a ball distributor for Pepperdine as he was fourth in the nation with 7.5 assists per game last season. Odum’s skillset is much different from past guards in Hurley’s system, such as Shannon Evans and Tra Holder who were shoot-first guards while Odum’s game is more pass-first.
“My skillset I feel like is more very shifty and very different pace. Not too fast, not too slow,” Odum said.
Odum averaged 13.1 points, 7.5 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game last season. He had a strong outing during Pepperdine’s WCC semifinals tournament run where he registered double-doubles in points and assists in three straight games.
Hurley complimented Odum’s ability to move the ball and his vision on the court last season with Pepperdine.
“He’s very shifty with the ball. He can create and he can escape different positions on the floor just off the dribble and he knows where everyone is,” Hurley told ESPN’s roundtable on Wednesday. “He really does a great job at finding people.”
ASU basketball enters the 2025-26 coming off a rough campaign last season where the Sun Devils finished 15th in the conference with a 13-20 record (4-16 in conference play).
The Sun Devils were picked to finish last in a Big 12 men’s preseason coaches poll earlier this month, something Odum said he and the Sun Devils are out to prove wrong this season.
“Voters will be wrong because they haven’t seen us play,” Odum said.
Odum is one of several new additions to the Sun Devils after an offseason that saw much roster turnover with Trevor Best as the only returning player from last season.
The Sun Devils saw several international players added to the roster, including forward Andrija Grbovic and guard Noah Meeusen. Hurley said at Big 12 media day on Thursday that economics were one of the reasons ASU heavily recruited international players this offseason.
“The economics of this year’s portal was very expensive for American players,” Hurley said. “International players were happy to make a significant bump from where they were in Europe and wanting to come over to the United States and get an education and play in the best conference in the United States.”
Bobby Hurley on ASU’s six international portal additions:
“It was very expensive for American players. International players were happy to make a significant bump from where they were in Europe…get an education, and play in the best conference in the country.”@DevilsDigest pic.twitter.com/WqxVZiMbgd
— George Lund (@GLundMedia) October 23, 2025
PHOENIX — Dillon Brooks hinted that it wasn’t someone you would expect, so that actually eliminated Collin Gillespie from the conversation, because you would expect that.
The new teammates on the Phoenix Suns have clicked right away, with Brooks’ “Dillon the Villain” nickname quickly taking life in Phoenix by Brooks teasing there was a “Villain Jr.” in our midst.
Brooks wanted it to remain a mystery for the time being early in camp, so an agreement was made that an official first guess would be made once he and the team returned from China.
The people voted on it, and their guess was Ryan Dunn.
Incorrect.
Brooks on the Suns’ social media pages made the official announcement that it is indeed Gillespie.
Given how Gillespie plays the game, always with a little attitude to him — I mean that in a complimentary way — it’s a perfect fit.
“It started off as a joke, originally,” Gillespie told Arizona Sports. “Some stuff happened in the summertime in our pickup games, and I’m like, ‘Yo, Dillon is crazy.’ And I was like, ‘I could kind of be like that out on the court with him!’
“I said it to him once, I was like, ‘Yo, I’ll be Villain Jr.’ And I was kind of kidding, and then he was being serious about it. I think he said it to you guys (in the media) one time and then it took off from there.”
The “stuff” in the pickup game was Brooks receiving two technical fouls. As a long-time basketball writer, I did not even know practice officials were calling Ts in scrimmage runs.
Gillespie is never going to do anything like that or challenge LeBron James in the way Brooks infamously once did, but he’s got a little bit of that bulldog in him for sure.
The fact that there were a handful of guesses out there about who was Villian Jr. tells you how many young players with an edge the Suns have on their roster, ready to follow in Brooks’ footsteps.
“I liked the way he put it: It’s about not caring what people say about you, going out and playing hard, being hungry every night, competing at a high level,” Gillespie said. “Those are all things that he prides himself on, that I pride myself on. We have a lot of guys that are like that.”
TEMPE — Arizona State star receiver Jordyn Tyson was ruled out for Saturday’s game against Houston due to an apparent hamstring injury, coach Kenny Dillingham said at Wednesday’s practice.
Dillingham did not disclose a potential timetable of when Tyson could return.
“I’m not ready to comment on that right now,” Dillingham said at Wednesday’s practice. “This is something I’m trying to protect him from himself. I mean that dude’s a competitor out there playing at the end of last game making plays, so this is something that we’re making the decision to kinda protect him from him a little bit because he’s such a competitor.”
Tyson reached for his right hamstring after making a cut on a route away from Chamon Metayer’s 12-yard reception in the third quarter of ASU’s 26-22 win over Texas Tech. He remained down in the end zone after the play as trainers stretched out his right leg.
kenny dillingham on jordyn tyson playing through his injury vs. texas tech, including a touchdown and 4th&2 conversion:
“…probably the first wide receiver taken in the draft and he’s battling for his team. what nfl team wouldn’t want that kid who battled through that?” cont.⬇️ pic.twitter.com/7htpyX25vT
— Damon Allred (@iamdamonallred) October 21, 2025
He was back on the field after missing two plays and caught a two-yard touchdown to end the drive.
“Probably the first wide receiver taken in the draft and he’s battling for his team,” Dillingham said of Tyson at Tuesday’s practice. “What NFL team wouldn’t want that kid who battled through that?
“He wasn’t thinking about his personal career. He was thinking about winning that football game for his teammates. If that’s not somebody that you want in your football team, I don’t know what is.”
Tyson had a clutch 33-yard pickup on fourth-and-two to help set up the game-winning touchdown, and he was visibly hampered by the injury as he ran with the ball.
Widely projected as the No. 1 wide receiver in the 2026 NFL Draft, Tyson finished the upset win with 10 catches for 105 yards and the score.
He is the Big 12’s leader in catches (57), receiving yards (628) and touchdowns (eight) through seven games.
He is also within striking distance of the ASU single-season records for catches (87) and touchdowns (14), set by Shaun McDonald and Doug Allen, respectively.
Tyson has 75% of the catches by an ASU wide receiver this season.
“I think a bunch of people have to step up,” Dillingham said at Wednesday’s practice. “You can’t just replace Jordyn Tyson with one person. You have to have a group and a team effort to replace 10, 15 yards at a time.”
Tyson missed the 2024 postseason due to a collarbone injury suffered in the Territorial Cup. He bulked up ahead of this season, naming injury prevention as the biggest reason.
He rarely saw the field during the 2023 season as he battled knee injuries after transferring from Colorado.
