On Tuesday in Kansas City for the Big 12 Basketball Media Days, Molly Miller and her three players in attendance - McKinna Brackens, Ruby Whitehorn, and Rashunda Jones - talked about how they're built to expand on last year's runaway success that saw the Sun Devils reach the NCAA Tournament. Just a few hours later, the Associated Press released their preseason Top 25 and, while the voters are clearly expecting big things from Miller's squad, they're not ready just yet to lump

Perhaps the biggest surprise in women's basketball last year was the Sun Devils. Molly Miller's first year on the job, following two spectacular runs at alma mater Drury and then Grand Canyon University, was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Arizona State had won just 10 games the year before and hadn't been to the NCAA Tournament in six years, which coincidentally was the last time the program had a winning record. The Sun Devils won 24 games, including going undefeated in t

Photo: Scott Strande/ITHSW Last season, it took three weeks for Arizona State to fall from No. 14 to out of the USCHO poll, the equivalent of the AP poll in NCAA men’s hockey. This season, it took three weeks for the Sun Devils to receive votes, and only one week under head coach Dave Hakstol. Arizona State (4-2) earned 22 points in the week three USCHO poll, placing sixth among the others receiving votes after it swept UMass-Lowell. It was 78 points behind the final team in