It has been a tale of two seasons for the Arizona State men's basketball team. And the conference season is not going well. After a promising 9-2 start to the

Hurley ordered his players off the court to avoid a conflagration after BJ Freeman head-butted Arizona’s Caleb Love.

Tempers boiled over during the most recent edition of the Territorial Cup between Arizona State and Arizona men's basketball.

To make matters worse after the game, Hurley continued his antics in the postgame press-conference, talking about Arizona's Caleb Love and his incessant chirping throughout the afternoon. While he didn't name Love specifically, Hurley ended his press conference with the damning statement:

Arizona State basketball head coach Bobby Hurley pulled his team off the court at the end of the rivalry game against Arizona.

Instead of meeting at center court and shaking hands with the opposing team after the final buzzer sounded, Sun Devils coach Bobby Hurley stormed off of the court, dismissed Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd with a wave of the hand, and forced his players to leave the court without shaking hands with the Wildcats.

The teams agreed to skip the postgame handshake line after the Wildcats' Caleb Love and Sun Devils' BJ Freeman were ejected with less than a minute left in Arizona's 81-72 win at Desert Financial Arena in Tempe,

Bobby Hurley refused to shake hands with rival coach Tommy Lloyd after a tough game between Arizona and Arizona State on Saturday. The Wildcats beat Hurley’s Sun Devils 81-72 in their game at Desert Financial Arena in Tempe,