As a college senior, he was a unanimous first-team All-America for the Duke Blue Devils, with whom he won consecutive national championships.

[1] Hurley was a basketball star at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, where his father was the longtime coach.

In his senior year he averaged 20 points, 8 assists and 3 steals, as St. Anthony racked up a 32–0 record, the school's first Tournament of champions crown, and the No.

[4] In 2002, Hurley was named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team as one of the fifty greatest players in Atlantic Coast Conference history.

Coincidentally, Bobby Hurley played against his younger brother Dan in an NCAA Tournament game, when Duke squared off against Seton Hall.

Hurley appeared in the 1994 feature film Blue Chips, where he played for the Indiana team under coach Bobby Knight.

[10] On April 13, 2010, Wagner College announced that Hurley was hired as an assistant coach for the men's basketball team.

In his first conference game with the Sun Devils, he gained notoriety when he got ejected for 2 technical fouls in 15 seconds for arguing with the officials against the rival Arizona Wildcats.

[16] A fan of thoroughbred horse racing, Hurley owned Songandaprayer who won the 2001 Fountain of Youth Stakes.

[18] In December 2009 he was sued by PNC Bank for defaulting on a $1 million loan that was used to purchase Songandaprayer, who was trained by Eddie Plesa Jr.[19] He owns Devil Eleven Stables, which went into foreclosure in 2010,[20] and was sold in 2011.

He pleaded guilty later that month to a lesser charge of careless and reckless driving and was given a six-month suspended sentence, a $500 fine and a 90-day suspension of his driver's license.