N.C. State’s Sendek Moves to Arizona State

North Carolina State Coach Herb Sendek has accepted an offer to become the coach at Arizona State, an official with knowledge of the deal confirmed Saturday night.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because there had been no formal announcement.

CBS Sports reported that Sendek had accepted the offer Saturday.

Arizona State Athletic Director Lisa Love, who attended the Sun Devils’ spring football scrimmage Saturday in Tempe, was unavailable for comment.

Sendek is 258-158 in 13 seasons as a head coach, the last 10 with North Carolina State, where he is 191-132. He spent his first three seasons with Miami of Ohio.

Sendek led the Wolfpack to five consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, reaching the third round in 2005.

The Sun Devils have been looking for a coach since March 10, when Love announced that Rob Evans would not return next season.

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Seimone Augustus, Louisiana State’s 6-foot-1 senior, was voted the Associated Press women’s player of the year.

Sylvia Hatchell, who guided North Carolina to the program’s first No. 1 ranking, was voted coach of the year and received her award amid great fanfare. The school’s pep band showed up for the ceremony and struck up the fight song as she walked to the podium, accompanied by rhythmic clapping by the cheerleaders.

Both winners have led their team to today’s Final Four in Boston.

Augustus was the only unanimous All-American this season and leads the nation in scoring at 23 points a game. She edged North Carolina’s Ivory Latta, 18-17, in the voting by the 46-member national media panel that selects the weekly top 25.

Cappie Pondexter of Rutgers received nine votes and Oklahoma freshman Courtney Paris had two in balloting conducted before the NCAA tournament.

Hatchell, who has won more than 700 games, was a runaway winner with 20 votes, giving North Carolina a sweep of the AP coaching awards. Roy Williams received the men’s award Friday.

Oklahoma’s Sherri Coale received 10 votes and Maryland’s Brenda Frese, whose team also is in the Final Four, had seven.