SUN DEVIL 2007-2008 HIGHLIGHTS •Posted a 20-win season (21-13) for just the •Had two All-Pac-10 selections (first-team pick 17.0 points per game average. He also notched fourth time in 27 years after being picked ninth James Harden and third-team pick Jeff Pender- 20 points in five straight games from Dec. 29- in the Pac-10 media poll. Notched nine Pac-10 graph) for the first time since Sun Devils Eddie Jan. 17, a first for an ASU freshman. wins for the third time in the past 13 seasons House, Bobby Lazor and Mike Batiste all earned •ASU became just the fifth team in 30 years of and had six wins over RPI top-60 teams Xavier the honor in 1998-99. the Pac-10 to go from a last-place finish (2-16 (9), Stanford (14), USC (28), Arizona (twice, •Won a school-record 15 home games (15-5), in 2006-2007) to a .500 record in conference 37) and Oregon (58). including wins over NCAA teams Coppin play the next year (9-9). State, Xavier, Oregon, Arizona, Stanford •ASU’s four overtime wins (4-0) was the most and USC and NIT wins over Alabama by an ASU team since 1985-86. ASU won over- State and Southern Illinois. time games over LSU in Maui, at California, vs. •Sun Devil freshmen made a league- Arizona and Stanford (in Tempe). leading and school record 96 starts, •Jeff Pendergraph became the 30th member played more than 47 percent of of the ASU 1,000-point club against USC on the minutes and accounted for March 1. He has 1,065 points in 90 career more than 52 percent of the games (11.8 ppg.). He also has 652 career re- scoring as ASU’s 13-win im- bounds (7.2 pg.), just four away from joining provement was tied for the best ASU top-10 list. in the nation. •Last season marked the first time in the 25- •TV ratings on FSN Arizona en- year history of the Pac-10 Player of the Week joyed an increase of 196% over the award three separate Sun Devils took home the previous season. The 15 Sun Devil honor (Jeff Pendergraph, Ty Abbott and James games on FSN AZ averaged a 1.5 rat- Harden). ing/3 share in the Phoenix market (an average of 27,039 households in the •Ty Abbott set ASU freshman records for starts Valley). (34) and three-pointers made (76). The 76 three-pointers is fourth-most by a freshman in •James Harden, the youngest player Pac-10 history. in the Pac-10, had an ASU freshman record 16 20-point games (third- •Shot .739 from the free throw line, the fifth- best in Pac-10), led the Pac-10 best mark in ASU history and second-best in with 73 steals (three shy of ASU past 21 seasons. record and a Sun Devil fresh- man record) and averaged 17.8 •Team posted a 3.18 GPA in spring of 2008 and points (tied for fifth in Pac-10), its cumulative GPA for the roster is now 2.98. second-best by a freshman in •Beat seventh-ranked Stanford 72-68 in over- ASU history and eighth-best time on Feb. 14 despite trailing by 14 in the sec- by a freshman in Pac-10 his- ond half and by seven with 1:49 left. It marked tory. He became just the the highest ranked opponent ASU has beaten fifth freshman to lead the since its 90-87 overtime win at No. 4 Stanford Pac-10 in steals and is the on Jan. 31, 1998, and earned its first win over James Harden became the first first freshman in league a top-10 team since Jan. 23, 2002 (88-72 win freshman in Pac-10 history history with 70 to average at least 17 points over No. 10 Arizona in Tempe) (17.8) and notch 70 steals. steals and a 112 WWW.THESUNDEVILS.COM SUN DEVIL 2007-2008 HIGHLIGHTS •Ranked in the Associated Press poll for the •Won 10 straight games from Dec. 5 until Jan. first time since the final poll of the 1994-95 17, the longest Sun Devil win streak since the season (March 13) as ASU was No. 22 (No. 25 1980-81 team won 11 straight. in ESPN poll) on Jan. 14 and then was 24th in •Beat No. 17 Xavier 77-55 on Dec. 15, the the AP poll on Jan. 21. largest margin of victory over a ranked team •Played back-to-back regular season games in school history. It also marked ASU’s high- against top-10 teams for just the second time est ranked win over a non-conference foe since in school history with games vs. sixth-ranked ASU beat seventh-ranked Maryland 97-90 on Washington State (Jan. 26) and at fifth-ranked Nov. 23, 1994, in the Maui Invitational. UCLA (Jan. 31). The only other time was when •Scored 54 points vs. Florida Gulf Coast on ASU fell to fourth-ranked Arizona (93-74) on Nov. 28, the most points in the first half since a Jan. 3 and then fell to fourth-ranked Stanford 58-30 lead against USC on Feb. 13, 2003. (63-62) on Jan. 8, 2004. •Outrebounded Cal Poly •Won its fourth straight game at California by 29 on Nov. 26 (52-23), with a wild 99-90 double-overtime win on Jan. ASU’s largest rebounding 17, 2008. James Harden (27), Jeff Pendergraph margin since a 49-19 margin (26) and Ty Abbott (25) became the first trio of vs. American-Puerto Rico on Sun Devils to score 25 points in the same game Nov. 26, 1997. Also held Cal Poly since Jan. 4, 1977, when ASU beat Portland to 14-of-55 (.255) from the floor, State 115-92. its best defensive effort since Dec. 2, •Beat Arizona 64-59 in overtime on Jan. 9, 2000, when it held NCAA Tournament- the program’s first win over the Wildcats since bound BYU to just 15-of-59 (.254), but then 2002, which ended a 12-game losing streak to ASU held Delaware State to just 20.8 percent Arizona. Came back from 22-6 deficit to then on Dec. 5 (11-of-53). win at Tucson for the first time since March •ASU started four freshmen (Ty Abbott, James 11, 1995, and earned first season sweep over Harden, Jamelle McMillan and Rihards Kuk- Arizona since 1994-95 season and sixth in 30 siks) against against No. 17 Xavier on Dec. 15 seasons of Pac-10 play. for the first time in school history. •Beat Oregon State 72-53 on Jan. 5, the pro- •Ty Abbott, James Harden and Jamelle Mc- gram’s biggest margin of victory in a Pac-10 Millan all started the opening game against game since a 108-78 win over USC on Feb. 13, Illinois on Nov. 19 in the Maui Invitational, 2003. the first time three freshmen had started the •Started Pac-10 play 4-0 for just the third time season opener for ASU. ASU went 2-1 in Maui in program history with wins over Oregon, Or- with wins over Princeton and LSU. egon State, Arizona and at California. •Won its Pac-10 opener, 64-59 over Oregon on Jan. 3, for just the fourth time in 20 seasons. •Set a school record by making 73.3 percent of Third-team 2008 All-Pac-10 its three-pointers (11-of-15) against Saint Fran- selection Jeff Pendergraph cis (Pa.) on Dec. 29 and shot 72.1 percent (31- enters his senior year with 1,079 points and 655 rebounds. of-43) from the field in that game, second-best in school history. WWW.THESUNDEVILS.COM 2008-2009 MEDIA GUIDE 113 2007-2008 STATISTICS/RESULTS 2007-2008 ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVIL CAREER STATISTICS 21-12 OVERALL/9-9 (T-5TH) IN PAC-10/15-5 HOME/4-6 AWAY/2-2 NEUTRAL G-GS Min-Avg FG-A Pct FG3-A Pct FT-A Pct Rb-Avg F-D Ast To Bk St Pts-Avg JAMES HARDEN (FR.) 07-08 34-33 1158-34.4 196-372 .527 44-108 .407 169-224 .754 179-5.3 72-2 110 89 19 73 605-17.8 JEFF PENDERGRAPH (JR.) 05-06 27-22 688-25.5 115-233 .494 0-2 .000 65-89 .730 165-6.1 93-5 15 52 23 12 295-10.9 06-07 30-29 1007-33.6 145-263 .551 0-5 .000 73-100 .730 272-7.7 104-5 26 70 22 18 363-12.1 07-08 34-34 967-28.4 153-258 .593 0-1 .000 115-145 .793 218-6.4 104-5 29 67 56 15 421-12.4 Career 91-85 2662-29.3 413-754 .548 0-8 .000 253-334 .757 655-7.2 301-14 70 189 101 45 1079-11.9 TY abbott (FR.) 07-08 34-34 1112-32.7 112-286 .392 76-215 .353 38-52 .731 124-3.6 80-2 51 44 13 39 338-9.9 DEREK GLASSER (SO.) 06-07 30-21 836-27.9 60-174 .345 34-101 .337 35-45 .778 60-2.0 56-1 97 59 0 27 189-6.3 07-08 34-19 912-26.8 61-159 .384 28-89 .315 58-69 .841 65-1.9 38-1 134 59 0 28 208-6.1 Career 64-40 1748-27.3 121-333 .363 62-190 .326 93-114 .816 125-2.0 94-2 231 118 0 55 397-6.2 JERREN SHIPP (SO.) 06-07 30-22 901-30.0 82-208 .394 36-107 .336 29-47 .617 98-3.3 61-1 45 47 4 30 229-7.6 07-08 34-16 893-26.3 61-158 .386 31-88 .352 49-60 .817 113-3.3 54-0 31 28 4 16 202-5.9 Career 64-38 1794-28.0 143-366 .391 67-195 .344 78-107 .729 211-3.3 115-1 76 75 8 46 431-6.7 RIHARDS KUKSIKS (FR.) 07-08 27-13 464-17.2 51-132 .386 36-98 .367 8-13 .615 48-1.8 29-1 31 19 2 17 146-5.4 ERIC boateng (SO.) 07-08 34-1 394-11.6 56-91 .615 0-1 .000 19-52 .365 90-2.6 52-0 6 42 11 4 131-3.9 CHRISTIAN POLK (SO.) 06-07 30-26 883-29.4 131-359 .365 64-203 .315 34-43 .791 63-2.1 83-2 56 79 7 25 360-12.0 07-08 22-0 276-12.5 28-81 .346 11-40 .275 11-13 .846 28-1.3 30-1 11 12 1 10 78-3.5 Career 52-26 1159-22.3 159-440 .361 75-243 .309 45-56 .804 91-1.8 113-3 67 91 8 35 438-8.4 JAMELLE MCMILLAN (FR.) 07-08 34-16 484-14.2 33-82 .402 15-42 .357 6-10 .600 53-1.6 53-1 73 43 0 17 87-2.6 ANTWI atuahene (SR.) 05-06 28-14 719-25.7 72-163 .442 3-12 .250 51-85 .600 102-3.6 80-7 108 83 5 25 198-7.1 06-07 30-17 789-26.3 75-169 .444 8-30 .267 49-87 .563 111-3.7 75-4 86 60 3 27 207-6.9 07-08 28-4 193-6.9 14-29 .483 3-4 .750 14-20 .700 33-1.2 28-1 12 12 0 15 45-1.6 Career 86-35 1701-19.8 161-361 .446 14-46 .304 114-192 .594 246-2.9 183-12 206 155 8 67 450-5.2 KRAIDON WOOD (FR.) 07-08 12-0 54-4.5 3-6 .500 0-0 .000 4-6 .667 6-0.5 3-0 2 1 3 2 10-0.8 STEVE JONES (JR.) 06-07 27-2 152-5.6 7-17 .412 6-15 .400 3-8 .375 11-0.4 14-1 7 1 0 2 23-0.9 07-08 7-0 18-2.6 0-2 .000 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 1-0.1 2-0 1 0 0 0 0-0.0 Career 29-2 170-5.0 7-19 .368 6-17 .353 3-8 .375 12-0.