ASU Men's Basketball SID Doug Tammaro Can Be Reached Directly at 480-734- 2013-14: 19-10 7795 Or Via E-Mail at [email protected]
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ASU 2020-2021 SCHEDULE Date Opp. (TV/Radio) ........FINAL/TIP 11/25 URI (ESPN) ....................W, 94-88 11/26 #3 Villanova (ESPN)....... L, 74-83 11/29 Houston Baptist (P12) .W, 100-72 ************************************************************************************************************************* 12/3 at Cal (P12) ....................W, 70-62 @SUNDEVILHOOPS MEETS WASHINGTON STATE IN PAC-12 TOURNAMENT 12/10 #24 San Diego St. (FS1) L, 68-80 Wed., Mar. 10-vs. Washington St. 1 p.m. PT/Pac-12 Net ASU won 77-74 (OT) only meeting 12/13 at GCU (FOX10Xtra) ....W, 71-70 ************************************************************************************************************************ 12/16 UTEP (P12) ..................... L, 63-76 ONE YEAR LATER, SUN DEVILS AND WAZZU IN LAS VEGAS: The No. 8 seeded Sun Devil men's 12/18 Incarnate Word ........CANCELED basketball team (10-13; 7-10) takes on No. 9 Washington State in the first game of the 2021 Pac-12 Tourna- 12/22 Utah (P12) ............................. DNP ment at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Wednesday at 1 p.m PT/2 p.m. MT on Pac-12 Network, with Roxy 12/31 at Washington State (P12) .. DNP Bernstein and Don MacLean on the call. This year marks the 24th Pac-12 Tournament and the fifth year at 1/7 UCLA (ESPN) ...........L, 75-81 OT T-Mobile Arena. WSU and ASU were supposed to meet last year in the quarterfinals on Thursday after WSU 1/9 USC (P12) ....................... L, 64-73 had upset Colorado late Wednesday, but then the world stopped. Arizona State is 16-7 (.696) in two posse- 1/14 at #22 Oregon (ESPN)......... DNP sion games the past two seasons, third-best in the leauge behind UCLA (16-4/.800) and Oregon (14-4/.778). 1/16 at Oregon State (P12) .... L, 79-80 1/21 Arizona (ESPN) .............. L, 82-84 ONLY MEETING (FEB. 27, 2021) -- ASU 77, WASHINGTON STATE 74 (OT): A fantastic overtime game 1/25 at Arizona (ESPN2) ........ L, 67-80 had a great Sun Devil ending as Remy Martin hit a three with 0.4 seconds to lift ASU to the win over Wash- 1/28 California (FS1) ..............W, 72-68 ington State. Martin ended with 23 points, while Kimani Lawrence had 14. Jalen Graham added 11 points, 12 1/30 Stanford (ESPN2) ..........W, 79-75 rebounds (six offensive) and four blocks, while Alonzo Verge Jr. had nine points, a career-high nine assists 2/11 Oregon (ESPN) ............. L, 75-64 and six rebounds. Jaelen House had 10 points off the bench as ASU was without Marcus Bagley (ankle) 2/14 Oregon St. (ESPN2) .....W, 75-73 and Josh Christopher (back). 2/17 at #17 USC (ESPN2) ..... L, 71-89 2/20 at UCLA (ESPN2) ........... L, 79-80 IT IS WHAT IT IS: ASU had two of the top scorers in the Pac-12 returning in Remy Martin and Alonzo Verge 2/23 Washington (P12) ..........W, 97-64 and signed top-30 players (Josh Christopher and Marcus Bagley), but those four players have played in just 2/25 Washington (FS1) ..........W, 80-72 seven games together and in just five since Nov. 27. 2/27 Wash. St. (P12) ....... W, 77-74 OT 3/1 Wash. State (P12) ...CANCELED ONE YEAR AGO THIS WAS THE NOTE: ASU had been to four NCAA Tournaments (1995, 2003, 2009 and 3/4 at Colorado (ESPN2) ..... L, 61-75 2014) in 26 seasons (1992-2017) and had not been back-to-back since 1980-81. Remy Martin and Kimani 3/6 at Utah (FS1) ................... L, 59-98 Lawrence went to the Dance in each of their first two seasons (2018 and 2019) and were on way to a third 3/10 vs. WSU (P12) last year, which would have been ASU's first three-year NCAA streak since the early 1960s. Pac-12 Tournament ........TBD RANDOM NOTE: ASU can get some points in a hurry. One of its best halves of hoops was at USC, when TURNED IT AROUND FAST it was down 46-44 at the half. How good is that? ASU's 44 first-half points at USC was more than Stanford Buffalo was 285-369 (.436) in (42) and Utah (46) scored the whole game. 22 seasons after going Division I (1991-2013). The Bulls were NOW THAT PAC-12 REGULAR SEASON PLAY IS DONE: All these statistics are for Pac-12 regular season 42-20 (.677) in Coach Hurley's games only...ASU averaged 73.59 in Pac-12 games this year, second in the league only to Arizona (74.85)... two seasons. ASU shot .747 from the free throw line (fourth in the league)...ASU led the league in turnover margin (+3.88) and was second in steals (6.71) and A/TO ratio (1.25)...Remy led the league with 21.47 points per game... BOBBY HURLEY Remy led the league in 30-point games in conference tilts with 31 vs. Washington, 30 at USC and 30 vs. YEAR-BY-YEAR Oregon...Remy had 10 20-point games in Pac-12 play out of 17, which is two better than a trio of players. 8 YEARS: 145-102 (.587) ASU: 103-82 (.557) REMY: Remy Martin has earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors for the second straight season, after earning (6 SEASONS) second-team honors in his sophomore year and co-Sixth Man of the Year in 2017-18. He joins Ike Diogu as 2020-21: 10-13 the only Sun Devil to earn All-Pac-12 honors three times. He enters the Pac-12 leading the lead in scoring 2019-20: 20-11/COVID (19.9 ppg.) and is eighth in assists (3.17). He leads the loop in 30-point games (four) and 20-point games (12). 2018-19: 23-11/NCAA 2017-18: 20-12/NCAA KIMANI NOTES: Kimani Lawrence's 21 points and 20 rebounds Feb. 25 vs. Washington is the first 20/20 2016-17: 15-18 outing by a Sun Devil since Nov. 19, 1997 (Mike Batiste gave Wagner 36/20)...only 20/20 by a Sun Devil in 2015-16: 15-17 a Pac-12 game...21 rebounds is second most by a Sun Devil in a Pac-12 game...past six games averaging 14.7 points and 8.8 rebounds...matched career highs in points (22) in the Feb. 23 win over Washington. BUFFALO (42-20/.677) 2014-15: 23-10 ASU MEDIA RELATIONS: ASU men's basketball SID Doug Tammaro can be reached directly at 480-734- 2013-14: 19-10 7795 or via e-mail at [email protected]. The ASU website is: www.TheSunDevils.com. Page 2, @SUNDEVILHOOPS...ASU has 28 halftime deficit comebacks under CBH, best in the Pac-12 in that time (dozen on the road). Pos # Name Yr. Ht./Wt. 2020-21 SUN DEVIL ROSTER NOTES G 0 Holland Woods Jr. 6-1/180 Transfer from Portland State/ 2017-18 Big Sky Freshman of Year, 2019-20 first-team pick G 1 Remy Martin Sr. 6-0/175 One of the most exciting players in the nation who takes and makes the 15-foot jumper G 2 Luther Muhammad Jr. 6-3/185 Ohio State transfer who will sit the 2020-21 season G 3 Caleb Christopher So. 6-1/180 Carson (Calif.) product from Mayfair High School G 4 Kimani Lawrence Sr. 6-8/220 Can guard 5 positions and play 4 of them/21 and 20 vs. Washington Feb. 23 G 10 Jaelen House So. 6-1/160 Combo guard is lightning fast from Shadow Mountain High School/dad is Eddie G 11 Alonzo Verge Jr. Sr. 6-3/170 Nation's best sixth man last year averaged more than 16 ppg G 12 Micah Burno So. 6-0/200 Chaparral High School product G 13 Josh Christopher Fr. 6-5/215 McDonald's All-American/Highest ranked recruit in school history during recruiting era G 14 Austin Ronzone Fr. 6-2/180 Walkon freshman from Oakland (twin is Cade) F 15 John Olmsted So. 6-10/215 Walkon with skills and height from Morenci, Ariz./second year in program G 20 Cade Ronzone Fr. 6-2/180 Walkon freshman from Oakland (twin is Austin) F 21 Chris Osten Jr. 6-9/210 Junior college transfer (say the last name like Austin, Texas) F 23 Marcus Bagley Fr. 6-8/215 Phoenix product is one of the most underrated freshman in the nation/brother of Marvin F 24 Jalen Graham So 6-9/220 Long sophomore from Phoenix's Mountain Pointe HS F 30 Kyle Feit So. 6-4/190 IMG Academy (Fla.) walkon F 35 Taeshon Cherry Jr. 6-9/220 Sun Devils are 9-1 when he scores in double digits F 41 Imran Takhar Sr. 6-3/195 Walkon from Southern California F 51 Pavlo Dziuba Fr. 6-8/225 Kirichkova (Ukraine)/solid build & great skills around hoop Head Coach: Bobby Hurley/42-20 at Buffalo (2013-15); 1992 Final Four MOP Coaching Staff: Rashon Burno (Associate HC), Anthony Coleman, Ben Wood, Eric Brown QUICK NOTES: Holland Woods is the only Sun Devil to play in every PEOPLE ASK, HERE ARE DETAILS: ASU has not had its full roster game...ASU is 16-7 in games of six points or less past two seasons... for any game this year. Kimani Lawrence missed the first two games ASU leads the league in turnover margin (+4.35)...Jalen Graham's after having knee surgery in the fall. Alonzo Verge Jr. missed the next .573 field goal mark (67-of-117) is fourth-best in the Pac-12...ASU is two games (COVID-19 protocol). In that second game, a win at Cal on 144-of-189 (.762) from the free throw line in the past 10 games...Sun Dec.