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Sun Devil WBB hosts Territorial Cup rematch on Sunday

Sun Devil WBB hosts Territorial Cup rematch on Sunday


THE GAME:  Sun Devil WBB (7-9, 0-7 Pac-12) vs. No. 19/15 Arizona (14-4, 4-3 Pac-12)
WHEN: Sunday at 3 p.m. MST
WHERE: Desert Financial Arena • Tempe, Ariz.
TV: Pac-12 Arizona 
RADIO: KDUS AM 1060
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For the first time since Jan. 8, the Sun Devil women’s basketball team (7-9, 0-7 Pac-12) will be back in action on Sunday (3 pm MST) when it hosts Arizona (14-4, 4-3) in the second of two Territorial Cup contests.
 
The Sun Devils did not play last week after their scheduled games at Utah (Jan. 13) and at Colorado (Jan. 15) were canceled due to the team not having enough available players. 
 
 “…the reality is there was no decision to be made,” ASU head coach Natasha Adair said of her team having to cancel the games. “With few healthy scholarship players time to heal is our only option. Our plan is to get our team healthy over the course of this week and be ready when we host Arizona.” 
 
As challenging as ASU’s non-conference schedule was – eight of its 11 contests were vs. teams that qualified for postseason play in 2022 – the beginning of conference play meant an even higher degree of difficulty. Three of ASU’s five Pac-12 games were against ranked opponents: at No. 18 Arizona, at No. 2 Stanford, vs. No. 18 Oregon. The last of those five contests, a 69-59 loss in Tempe, came against an Oregon State squad that upset current No. 9 UCLA on Jan. 1 and nearly upset the Wildcats prior to coming to Tempe. 
 
ASU was defeated by Arizona 84-66 in the Pac-12 opener for both teams on Dec. 28. After trailing by as many as 16 points in the first half, ASU put together a 9-2 run that started in the last two minutes of the half and culminated with a 3- pointer by junior guard Treasure Hunt that got ASU back within single digits early in the second half. UA scored the next seven points starting a scoring run that eventually put the game out of reach. Junior guard Tyi Skinner led ASU with a game-high 26 points, the most points scored against Arizona this season until Alissa Pili had 27 in UA’s most recent contest at Utah on Jan. 15. 
 
At Stanford (Dec. 31), the difficulty of ASU’s task of trying to upset the No. 2 team on its homecourt became exponentially more difficult after the Cardinal jumped out to a 16-3 lead. At Cal (Jan. 2), after Hunt tied the game at 55-55 in the first minute of the fourth quarter, ASU suddenly hit a cold spell on the offensive end. Over a period of…

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