Arizona State has reportedly offered Jeff Capel the head coach vacancy after firing Herb Sendek after nine seasons.
Capel served as the head coach at VCU and Oklahoma before landing at Duke as an assistant. He is currently the Blue Devils' associate head coach.
If hired, Capel would be the successor to Sendek, who came to the Sun Devils after serving as head coach at NC State and leading the Wolfpack to five straight NCAA tournament appearances. Under Sendek, Arizona State made two NCAA tournament appearances in 2009 and 2014 and four NIT appearances.
Ray Anderson, Arizona State's vice president of athletics, released a statement on Sendek's dismissal:
Our athletics department, university and community expect our men's basketball program to compete consistently for Pac-12 titles, make regular trips to the NCAA Tournament, keep the best in-state talent, and energize our fans and donors. Unfortunately, we have fallen short of these expectations.
Arizona State finished 18-16 this season, going 9-9 in the Pac-12, and lost their second-round NIT game to Richmond on Sunday. Sendek was 159-137 with the Sun Devils.