When guards Tra Holder, Shannon Evans and Kodi Justice take the floor when Arizona State hosts Stanford for Senior Day on Saturday, it won’t be the end. That, perhaps more than anything, signifies the trio’s impact on the program’s turnaround.

“I feel like we have a lot more basketball still to play,” Justice said Tuesday.

Senior Day won’t just be one final hurrah, a chance to be honored in front of the home fans at Wells Fargo Arena. It’s not a consolation prize for playing four memory-filled years of college basketball.

March Madness awaits, and for the first time in quite some time, the Sun Devils will most likely play in it.

Many pundits thought this group would be a bubble team. One that would need to scrape out a few key wins and have a good showing in the conference tournament to squeak out of Selection Sunday with a bid.

Who predicted a 12-0 start, the best start in program history? What about being ranked No. 3 in the country, tying the highest mark in school history?

The Sun Devils doing that after consecutive losing seasons to begin Bobby Hurley’s tenure … unthinkable.

“It’s been an honor to be able to go through the entire process, through ups and downs,” Justice said. “There have been great times, there have been rough times. To be able to finish on top the way we are, the way we’re playing together, I mean, couldn’t ask for more.”

As Justice says, the turnaround could be attributed to many different factors. He chose to point to hard work.

The late nights. The early mornings. And not just going through the motions, but managing to have resolve and dedication after so much losing.

“Putting in the work be better because we were all under-recruited, we were looked over, we were guys that were talked about that, ‘Oh, they’re not good. They’re not going to be a good team, they’re not going to be able to do it together,’” Justice said.

They all came from separate paths. Justice is a local kid, Holder is from California. Those two were recruited by former coach Herb Sendek, but Evans played at Buffalo under Hurley.

Once Hurley took the job at ASU, Evans followed. The guard on Tuesday recalled being an outsider before Holder and Justice eventually took him into their friend group, the start of something special.

They became a family with the same journey toward a common goal.

“Being basketball players and wanting to win, not only for ourselves but for each and for the program,” Evans said.

Added Hurley: “We had our struggle. We went through our adversities together.”

Then they stole the national spotlight.

The Sun Devils have struggled in conference play but are still a likely lock for the NCAA Tournament because of their non-conference résumé. They beat now-No. 3 Xavier and went on the road and defeated Kansas, currently the sixth-ranked team in the country.

Big difference from Hurley’s first two seasons, where ASU proved to be no match for Kentucky — once at Rupp Arena, then in the Bahamas. Or for Purdue, which dismantled the Sun Devils last year.

“To just burst onto the scene nationally and what these guys did through several months of the season and some of the wins that they had are legendary wins,” Hurley said. “Wins that I’ll always remember, they’ll always remember and just put our program in a different light. It made coming to see Arizona State basketball exciting here.”

During one practice weeks ago, Hurley had his team look up to the top of Wells Fargo Arena to see a wall that had been removed to increase capacity. You did this, he told his ranked team.

The program is now on the verge of setting a new attendance record, a testament to the work of Hurley and his players, especially the senior trio. The crowds have been raucous. One Sporting News reporter compared the atmosphere from ASU’s Feb. 15 game against Arizona to that of Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Not to mention recruiting, which has been bolstered this season with four-star prospects Taeshon Cherry and Luguentz Dort committing to the Sun Devils.

All because of a winning season, led by three pesky senior guards playing with chips on their shoulders.

“They’re what culture-building is all about,” Hurley said. “Just how they work, the type of kids they are, the type of students they are, off the court. I sleep well at night knowing that I have Tra Holder, Shannon Evans and Kodi Justice in my program and those guys are going to be highly successful when they leave here.”

But before they depart, there’s March and the promised land. The last time ASU went dancing, Holder and Justice were high school seniors.

Evans, however, went once while at Buffalo with Hurley. He called it the “Mecca of basketball.” Former players and coaches roaming the hotels. Well-known TV personalities everywhere. The crowds.

“I feel like everybody should experience that, at least one time,” Evans said.

Hurley said he’s had as much fun coaching this season as he ever has in his career. Pac-12 play hasn’t gone to plan, but because of everything else this team has accomplished this season, that shouldn’t matter come Selection Sunday.

“It means a lot just to see the things we overcame individually and as a group,” Evans said of he and his fellow seniors. “We all have our own individual stories and ultimately, we got the same goal.”

And on Saturday, they’ll play in Wells Fargo Arena one final time.

That’s all it is, though.

“I’m excited for Saturday, but I’m not looking at it like it’s the end,” Justice said.