The Arizona State Sun Devils and Stanford Cardinal will play Thursday at Maples Pavilion. Tip-off from Stanford, CA, is at 7:00 p.m. PT. The home team is a 1.5-point spread favorite and the game total is 138.5 points.
Arizona State, 16-8 SU and 10-13-1 ATS, lost 75-70 to Oregon on Saturday. It's 1-4 in its past five and 7-6 in Pac-12 play.
Stanford, 10-13 SU and 11-12 ATS, lost 84-62 to Colorado on Sunday. It's 4-1 in its past five and 4-8 in conference competition.
Arizona State defeated Stanford 68-64 earlier this season. Neither team shot the ball well, but the Cardinal was especially inefficient (35.9%). Stanford leads the series 53-42 since the 1949-50 season.
The Sun Devils are going through a tough stretch of games, losing five of their last six. Despite this, they're just 3.5 games out of first place in the Pac-12 with seven games remaining. Can ASU find its spark before the season ends?
Arizona State lost by five at home to Oregon in its last game. The Sun Devils led by three at the half, but the Ducks stormed out of the locker room to score 48 second-half points. Neither team took care of the ball — Oregon had 17 turnovers and Arizona State had 14 — but the Ducks shot over 47 percent from the field and got to the foul line often (18-of-26). Junior guard DJ Horne led ASU with 18 points on 7-of-17 shooting.
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The Sun Devils average 71.3 points (180th) and shoot 42.3 percent from the field (298th), including 32.2 percent from three (281st). They shoot 69.5 percent from the free-throw line (249th) and average 33.4 rebounds (105th) with a -0.3 rebounding margin. Arizona State is 117th in Ken Pom's schedule-adjusted offensive efficiency and 273rd in effective field goal percentage (48.6%).
Senior guard Desmond Cambridge Jr. leads the Sun Devils in scoring this season. He averages 13.2 points on 41.2 percent shooting. Other players to watch are Horne (11.2 PPG and 3.3 RPG), sophomore guard Frankie Collins (11.1 PPG, 4.4 RPG, and 4.7 APG), and senior guard Devan Cambridge (10.3 PPG and 5.3 RPG).
Arizona State surrenders 67.0 points per game (103rd), and its opponents shoot 39.1 percent (10th), including 33.0 percent from three (150th). It's 39th in adjusted defensive efficiency, 116th in adjusted tempo, and 65th in assist- per-turnover ratio.
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