We’re Going Streaking! Lady Sun Devils Win Seventh Straight
A seven-game winning streak has the Lady Sun Devils riding high. How high? Well, one person thinks it may be the best team of Charli Turner Thorne’s Arizona State career.
Last Week (2-0, 15-6 overall, 7-2 Pac-10): ASU 66, Washington State 47; ASU 80, Washington 64.
What We Learned: The Sun Devils are going streaking! They’re playing their best basketball of the season as the first half of the Pac-10 campaign winds down. ASU has now won seven straight after dispatching both Washington schools with relative ease.
The Sun Devils clearly have a lot of confidence right now, and it’s showing; they’re clicking in pretty much every facet of the game. Quoth Charli Turner Thorne in the Arizona Republic: “This team could be the best team I’ve ever coached. It’s all here. We’ll see how it goes, but it’s all here.”
Their streaking hasn’t allowed the Sun Devils to climb much further in the Pac-10, though. They remain in third place as league-leading Cal is enjoying a longer streak than ASU. The Golden Bears won their 10th consecutive contest on Saturday, 73-71 over USC. Stanford was 7-2 heading into its Sunday game against UCLA.
Star of the Week: Point guard Dymond Simon (pictured above) led the Sun Devils in scoring in both contests with 14 against the Cougars and 17 against the Huskies. Simon also had six assists against Washington to rally the Sun Devils from a slow start in the first half.
Quoth Simon: “I came into the game just trying to get a feel for it, and today wasn’t the day to do that. I am going to take this game as a lesson and come out next game with balls of fire. It was just me not being in tune with my teammates.”
Next Week: The Sun Devils will play host to the Oregon schools – Oregon on Thursday and Oregon State on Saturday. The Sun Devils beat Oregon and Oregon State last month to start their winning streak, allowing a combined 89 points to the Ducks (who are now 0-9 in the Pac-10) and Beavers (4-5).
ASU should obviously be favored to win both games, and will need to in order to keep pace with the conference leaders. Because it appears as if Cal and Stanford are playing as well as the Sun Devils are right now.
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I guess this is what it has come to – posting about CTT’s team because Sendek’s team can’t get the job done. I’ll say this – CTT lit a fire under this team a few weeks ago that is burning red hot. I look forward to seeing how the women do when they travel to LA, the Bay Area, and Tucson.
Right now they are clearly the third best team in the conference and I can’t see that changing any time soon due to the lack of a female James Harden in a Sun Devil uniform.
Only positive sports story in the Valley this weekend.
Only positive story? I think you have to count the Dbacks finally ridding themselves of Brandon Lyon – I realize that it has been about a week but that sort of good news sticks around for awhile.