Brown Puts on Scoring Clinic in WBB’s Loss to No. 5 Colorado

TEMPE, Ariz. – Jalyn Brown put on a performance that was simultaneously an ode to the past greats of Sun Devil Women’s Basketball – perhaps fitting that Sun Devil Hall of Famer Briann January was sitting courtside – as much as it was to the potential of the program’s future in the Sun Devil women’s basketball team’s 81-68 loss to fifth-ranked Colorado on Sunday.
 
Brown, a sophomore who transferred to ASU from Louisville last spring, scored 35 points, the most by a Sun Devil in the 21st century and the highest single-game total by a player this season in a game contested between two Pac-12 teams.

MOST POINTS BY A SUN DEVIL SINCE 2000

35 – Jalyn Brown vs. Colorado (1/7/24)

34 – Jade Loville at San Diego (12/18/2021)

33 – Jade Loville vs. Oregon St. (2/4/2022)

32 – Kylan Loney vs. Arizona (1/31/04)

30 – Kianna Ibis at Utah (12/31/17)

30 – Amanda Levens vs St. Peter’s (11/17/01)

 

Brown (11-23 FGs, 11-12 FTs) and Isadora Sousa (4-5 FGs, 10 points) combined to shoot 54 percent from the floor. Brown, Sousa and Trayanna Crisp (12 points), who was able to return to action after suffering an injury that forced her to leave the game seconds after the curtain went up in ASU’s contests vs. Utah on Friday,…