Photo: Scott Strande/ITHSW Friday night's game was highlighted by a strong resilience as the Sun Devils battled back from a first period deficit to claim the weekend-opening win. Saturday night's rematch did not yield the same results, as St. Cloud adjusted their strong defensive blueprint, holding on for the 2-1 win and a weekend split. The Huskies set the tone very early, striking just 14 seconds into the game on the second goal of the season from Hayden Paupanekis. The lea

Throughout the week, before traveling to Provo to face No. 8 BYU, Arizona State had questions about preparing for a road matchup against a top-10 team. On Saturday afternoon, the Sun Devils trailed the Cougars 17-3 at halftime, with freshman quarterback Jake Fette making his first career start. Fette struggled in the opening half, managing just 48 passing yards on 9-of-18 attempts, while Arizona State’s offensive line allowed six sacks. “They're so multiple in their pass defe

Photo: Madison Sorenson/Cronkite News The Sun Devils are set to take on BYU in a game that seems tailor-made for an upset special. Unfortunately, that's not how our panelists see this game turning out. David Howman (7-0) I'm excited for the start of the Jake Fette era, but I'm not even remotely optimistic that it'll go well in his first career start. BYU may have lost last week, but it was double overtime on the road on the east coast. I'm not putting a ton of stock into that

TEMPE- For the first time in 222 days, the Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball team will begin its new season at home, welcoming the Jackson State Tigers on Monday. When asked how it feels to start a new season, head coach Molly Miller said she had a chance to catch up with Charli Turner Thorne, the longtime former head coach of Arizona State women's basketball, who has been attending practices. Miller and Turner Thorne also crossed paths this past summer while workin

Cam Skattebo finds the end zone in Arizona State's 28-23 in over BYU in 2024. Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images The last time the Sun Devils and Cougars were on the same field, fans were treated to two field storms and an important win on the way to the 2024 Big 12 championship and an appearance in the College Football Playoff. The stakes are swung to the opposite side this weekend, with the Sun Devils holding a chance to play spoiler. That task will be monumentally more

Molly Miller's second act will be here soon, as Arizona State looks to build on the momentum of last year's surprise tournament team. Miller has retooled the roster and upgraded her overall lineup, evidenced by the team's selection to finish fifth by Big 12 media members. In anticipation of the season tipping off, here are our preseason power rankings for the conference, which mirror the ballot that Echo From the Buttes submitted to the Big 12. TCU Horned Frogs Head coach Mar

Arizona State hosting St. Cloud State on February 7, 2026. Photo: State Press Sun Devil Hockey is sitting in a solid position as the NCHC schedule kicks off this weekend. Coming off a bye week owning a 4-2-0 record, Arizona State will head north to take on the St. Cloud State Huskies in a weekend of debuts on both benches. The overwhelming story in Tempe is of course the re-debut of head coach Dave Hakstol in conference play, but the Huskies are also under new leadership, wit

Basketball season is upon us. The Sun Devils will soon tip off the much-awaited Randy Bennett era, but things will be far from easy. Playing in the best basketball conference, Bennett will have his work cut out for him, as Arizona State was selected to finish 12th by conference media members. In anticipation of the start of the season, here are our preseason power rankings, which match the ballot Echo From the Buttes submitted for the Big 12 media poll. Houston Cougars Arizon

The Big 12 sent shockwaves through the college athletics world on Friday when it was announced that Commissioner Brett Yormark will step down from his post no later than the end of January 2027. Yormark joined the Big 12 as its commissioner back in August of 2022, leaving his job as CEO of Jay-Z's Roc Nation just months before the Big 12 lost Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC. While many expected the conference to fold and be absorbed by other power conferences, Yormark stabilize

In a game where Arizona State played three quarterbacks, one might expect a disastrous game for the Sun Devils. That marks a symbol of things going wrong or went wrong for a team with either injuries or bad play. On Saturday, it was both, as sixth-year Mikey Keene went down with an injury and junior Cutter Boley got benched for freshman Jake Fette. The Sun Devils rallied around Fette to a 28-17 win over Kansas State, resulting in a lot of good things. The Good The defense nee

The trend is that teams lose votes and move down the rankings in early-season weeks of hockey polls when they do not play. Arizona State was a part of that trend after not playing last week. Arizona State (4-2) received nine votes in the week four USCHO hockey poll, down from last week's 22. It moved from sixth to tied ninth in the others receiving votes group. The Sun Devils are tied with Bowling Green. Both teams are 80 votes behind 20th-place Massachusetts. The NCHC saw a

Now that the season is fully underway, all 10 NCHC teams have wins and losses, which was not the case last week, leading to some movement. Conference play begins for eight teams this week. 1. Denver (3-2-1, Last week’s rank: 3) Denver won and tied with Boston College last week. The Pioneers host Omaha this week. 2. Western Michigan (4-1, Last week’s rank: 2) Western Michigan lost to Michigan in one game last week. The Broncos host Long Island this week. 3. Minnesota-Duluth

TEMPE, Ariz. – Three different quarterbacks got action in Saturday’s game against Kansas State. Heading into Tuesday’s practice, it was unclear what the quarterback order would be after sixth-year Mikey Keene’s injury and junior Cutter Boley’s benching. Freshman Jake Fette took the majority of first-team reps, with Keene taking some as well. In the only first-team eleven-on-eleven period, Keene was supplementing Fette in the huddle. In the first team offense, wide receiver De

Randy Bennett is nearing his first game as the head coach for his hometown Sun Devils, but he's already stacking wins on the recruiting trail. On Monday, Arizona State landed a commitment from the top in-state recruit for this upcoming cycle. Jakyi Miles is a 4-star combo guard currently playing for Compass Prep, one of the top programs in the Nike EYBL league. Miles has been on track for the 2028 recruiting class, in which he's ranked 28th in the nation and tops in the state

TEMPE- The Arizona State Sun Devils bounced back with a 28-17 win over the Kansas State Wildcats at Mountain America Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The big question heading into Saturday's game was how the Sun Devils would bounce back after a tough showing at Texas Tech last weekend. One takeaway was how the team responded, bringing intensity on both ends of the field as they navigated a rollercoaster season. "I thought we played way better.... At the beginning and end of the

TEMPE, Ariz. – Arizona State needed a bounce-back game after getting blown out last week against Texas Tech. The Sun Devils were dominated on every level. Sixth-year quarterback Mikey Keene sparked the offense midway through the game after taking over for junior Cutter Boley. The Sun Devils hoped the spark would turn into fire against Kansas State. At the half, Keene’s spark had caught fire against the Wildcats, but he was helped off late in the half. Arizona State (3-3, 1-2

Photo: ASU Football Football Saturday is upon us once more, and with that comes the latest round of predictions from our panel of experts. David Howman (6-0) The Avery Johnson news changes things for me. Kansas State has a lot of flaws along their roster, but the connection between Johnson and head coach Collin Klein has covered up a lot of them. With Mikey Keene at the helm for Arizona State, I think we'll see more offensive cohesion and enough stops on defense to get a win,

Photo: Kansas State Athletics The last time Arizona State and Kansas State faced off, the stakes were much higher. Both were fighting near the top of the Big 12, with championship game aspirations on the line. The scene has changed in the 2026 season, with both teams staring at a steep climb to even have a hope of an appearance in the conference title game. Both teams enter at 1-2 in conference play; Kansas State notched their first conference win of the season by winning the

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