Austin Nunez enters transfer portal after second stint at ASU cut short by injury
Point guard Austin Nunez on Thursday became the eighth Arizona State men’s basketball player to enter the transfer portal, he told The Athletic’s Tobias Bass.
Nunez played just four games in 2024-25 due to a foot injury that required surgery. He had eight points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals across 45 total minutes.
It was his second stint with head coach Bobby Hurley after he was originally signed to the Sun Devils in the class of 2022 and played at Ole Miss in 2023-24.
Nunez was ASU’s top freshman addition in the 2022 class (No. 71 overall by 247Sports) out of San Antonio Wagner High School, joining the group alongside Duke Brennan, who is now also in the transfer portal after spending the last two seasons at Grand Canyon.
What does Austin Nunez entering the transfer portal mean for ASU?
His portal entry leaves just Moe Odum (Pepperdine transfer) and Trevor Best, who reclassified up from 2025 to join the team early in January, as scholarship point guards on the roster.
It also means that just 20.8% of the scoring from 2024-25 scholarship players remain in Adam Miller, Amier Ali and Best.
“To a degree, our staff and myself let them down by not having enough guys in the program that can contribute,” Hurley told reporters after the team’s opening-round loss in the Big 12 Tournament on March 11. “And you gotta project that things could happen and injuries could happen and … that can’t derail your season.
“So that’s something that’ll weigh on me. I’ll have a lot of regret because these guys, I think if we had the whole puzzle together, it was an NCAA tournament team and that’s not what it is right now at the moment.”
