WHEN: Friday at 7 p.m. MST
WHERE: Desert Financial Arena • Tempe, Ariz.
TV: Pac-12 Arizona/Bay Area
RADIO: KDUS AM 1060
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The Sun Devil women’s basketball team (7-14, 0-12 Pac-12) plays the first of its final four home games on Friday (7 pm MST) when it hosts Cal (11-12, 2-10) at Desert Financial Arena. ASU will then host No. 6 Stanford on Super Sunday before closing out the home portion of its 2002-23 season when No. 25 Colorado and No. 7 Utah visit Tempe next weekend. ASU will conclude the regular season on the road at Oregon State (Feb. 23)/at Oregon (Feb. 25).
ASU is coming off a road trip in which it dropped contests at USC (64-49) and at UCLA (82-63). Junior guard Tyi Skinner led ASU in scoring (21.0 ppg) and 3-pointers (7) and tied for the team lead in steals (1.5 spg). Skinner scored a team-high 14 points at USC and went off for a game-high 28 points (one point short of matching her career high) at UCLA, the most points the Bruins have allowed an opposing player to score this season. Also at UCLA for the second time this season Skinner knocked down a career high-tying six 3-pointers, one triple short of matching the program’s single-game record.
Skinner (21.0 ppg) and fellow junior guards Treasure Hunt (14.0 ppg) and Jaddan Simmons (11.0 ppg), combined to average 46.0 ppg in the two games. Simmons, who has the team’s longest current streak of scoring in double figures led ASU in rebounding in last week’s games (6.0 rpg).
Both of this week’s games are rematches of games that took place on New Year’s weekend. After a stretch during the month of December in which ASU played only two games in 23 days, it resumed play with its first three conference games of the season – at Arizona, at Stanford, at Cal – over a five-day stretch. The sequence of games also coincided around the time ASU head coach Natasha Adair and her staff were figuring out the team would compete against the toughest conference in the country while in the middle of a stretch of injuries that would plague it after an impressive 6-1 start.
Injuries took such a toll on ASU’s roster that it would have to forfeit games at Utah (Jan. 13) and at Colorado (Jan. 15) the third week of conference play because of not having enough healthy players to compete.
At Cal (Jan. 2), after Hunt tied the game at 55-55 in the…
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