A common foe between UCLA and Arizona State this young season is Delaware State. UCLA beat Delaware State 66-49 (by 17) while ASU beat Delaware State 76-34 (by 42).
Josh Shipp's younger brother, Jerren, plays for ASU. So far this season, Jerren is playing backup minutes and is averaging 4 points and 1.8 rebounds per game.
Arizona State - Team Notes
USA Today
Posted 12/18/2009 1:15 AM
Derek Glasser liked what he saw.
Now he's hoping for more from freshman forward Victor Rudd.
Rudd, who had scored just seven points all season, racked up a career-high 15 in Arizona State's 76-34 rout of Delaware State, showing some of the potential that made him a coveted recruit out of Findlay Prep in Nevada, the prep school national champion.
Maybe it was just an isolated outburst in a game that featured plenty of garbage time.
But Glasser, the Sun Devils' senior floor leader, believes there is more where that came from.
"For him to start getting it going now is good timing with conference (play) coming up," Glasser said. "I hope this is the first big game of many for him this season."
Rudd played just 26 minutes in his four previous appearances, shooting 1-for-7 and totaling seven points. He was 6-for-7 from the field against Delaware State.
"I think my first couple games I was just trying to get a shot off, because that's what I'm used to," Rudd said. "But I talked to Coach (Herb) Sendek; he said just calm down and let it come to you. And that's what I did today."
Glasser said the difference was clear.
"His shooting struggled early, only because he really didn't take good shots," Glasser said. "But tonight he was taking open shots. Guys found him and he knocked them down. If he can get open looks and just play within himself, and not try and force things, he'll get a lot more minutes."
"I know my role," Rudd said. "Conditioning-wise, I'm getting better every day. I think I'll be ready for the Pac-10. The Pac-10 is tough. No matter what anybody says, the Pac-10 is tough. I'll be ready for that."
NOTES, QUOTES
--Arizona State was leading the Pac-10 in field-goal accuracy (.509) and field-goal defense (.378) through its first 10 games.
--Without Jeff Pendergraph and James Harden this season, the Sun Devils are still relying on the 3-point shot. Through their first 10 games, they were converting 8.0 per game, tops in the Pac-10. A year ago, ASU led the conference in 3-pointers made per game at 8.23.
--The Sun Devils managed just two offensive rebounds during their 81-68 loss to BYU, and one of them came off a missed free throw.
JANUARY AT A GLANCE: The Sun Devils venture to Los Angeles to open the Pac-10 schedule. Typically, that's one of the league's most treacherous road trips. This year, it might be a great opportunity to catch UCLA and USC before they have pulled their game together. ASU has five Pac-10 home games in January, with visits by the Washington schools, Arizona, Cal and Stanford.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "We're still trying to identify what's a good shot and what isn't at times. We've had some good shooting games at times. But at this early point in the season, it's probably premature to read too much into statistics." -- Coach Herb Sendek, dismissing the Sun Devils' early-season shooting success.
STRATEGY AND PERSONNEL
SEASON RECAP: The Sun Devils have played pretty well -- 7-3 through 10 games -- with respectable losses to Duke, Baylor and BYU. The problem is, like most of the rest of the Pac-10, they haven't beaten anyone particularly good, There is much still to learn about this young team, but ASU has gotten off to a very solid start.
PLAYER ROTATION: Usual Starters -- PG Derek Glasser, G Ty Abbott, G Jamelle McMillan, F Rihards Kuksiks, C Eric Boateng. Key Subs -- G Trent Lockett, G Demetrius Walker, F Victor Rudd, C Ruslan Pateev.
GAME REVIEW:
Baylor 64, Arizona State 61
BYU 81, Arizona State 68
Arizona State 76, Delaware State 34
GAME PREVIEW:
vs. San Diego State, Saturday, Dec. 19 (ASU wins,55-52)
vs. UC Santa Barbara, Monday, Dec. 21 (ASU wins, 69-42)
vs. USC Upstate, Wednesday, Dec. 23 (ASU wins, 61-52)
at UCLA, Thursday, Dec. 31
at USC, Saturday, Jan. 2
IN FOCUS: The Sun Devils face a San Diego State team that will carry an 8-2 record and five-game win streak into Tempe. The Aztecs are coming off a dominating 63-46 home win over Arizona and feature a balanced attack with five players averaging 9.9 points or more.
ROSTER REPORT:
--Senior PG Derek Glasser has been terrific. Through 10 games, he was averaging 12.8 points and 5.8 assists, had a 3.1-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio and was shooting 48.4 percent from 3-point range. Glasser had three games of 20 points or more and seven games with two or fewer turnovers.
--F Rihards Kuksiks was shooting .447 (17-for-38) from 3-point distance in ASU's seven wins, just .333 (9-for-27) in the club's three defeats.
--Freshman G Trent Lockett has contributed four double-digit scoring games and is shooting 57.9 percent from the field.
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Some choiced chunks from ASU press release leading to game at UCLA
Men's Hoops Opens Pac-10 Play At Pauley Pavilion On NY Eve At 1:30 p.m. PT On FOX Sports Net
The Official Arizona State Sun Devils website
December 28, 2009
56-26 (.683) PAST THREE SEASONS
The Arizona State's men's hoops team, in its fourth season under 318-game winner Herb Sendek and coming off back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time since 1980-81, opens Pac-10 play in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve when it takes on UCLA in a Thursday matinee at 1:30 p.m. PT/2:30 p.m MT on FOX Sports Net and KTAR 620 AM. ASU then takes on the hot USC Trojans at 7:30 p.m. PT/8:30 p.m. MT on Saturday, Jan. 2 (FOX Sports Arizona and KMVP 860 AM), as the Trojans have won six straight, the best mark of anyone entering Pac-10 play. ASU is 10-3, as after going 8-22 (.267) in Coach Sendek's first year (2006-2007), the Sun Devils are 56-26 (.683) since and giving up just 60.5 points per game in his 112 games. ASU has had to replace two NBA draft picks from last year in first-team consensus All-American James Harden and first-team All-Pac-10 forward Jeff Pendergraph, but returns three starters from last year's team in senior point guard Derek Glasser (2009 Pac-10 All-Tournament Team), junior Rihards Kuksiks (third-best returning three-point shooter in the nation according to NCAA minimums) and junior Ty Abbott (121 career threes and 65 starts entering this year). ASU has had eight players lead or share the team lead in scoring in its 13 games and has five players on its roster who have had a 20-point game in their career. The Sun Devils have held nine of their first 13 opponents to under 40 percent field goal shooting, as 26 of its past 48 opponents have shot under 40 percent. ASU is 2-1 in Pac-10 openers under Herb Sendek, including last year's 90-60 win at Stanford, after going 3-15 in the previous 18 seasons. ASU will hope to continue strong shooting against UCLA, as it shot 52.9 percent from the field (46-of-87) in its two wins last year.
LEADING THE WAY
The Sun Devils lead the Pac-10 in scoring defense (54.5 points per game), scoring margin (+15.8 points per game), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.3) and three-pointers made per game (8.6 with 112 made in 13 games). They rank second in the loop in field goal percentage defense (.380), field goal percentage (.484), three-point shooting (.400) and turnover margin (+3.5)
GOING BACK TO CALI
ASU returns to Southern California this year after having solid success there last year, as it was 6-3 in SoCal in 2008-09 including a Mountain West Conference road win (at San Diego State on Nov. 18), a Pac-10 road win (at UCLA on Jan. 17) and two Pac-10 Tournament wins in Staples Center (over Arizona on March 12 and vs. #13 Washington on March 13). It also went 2-1 (wins vs. Charlotte and UTEP and loss to Baylor) in the 76 Classic in Anaheim Nov. 27-30.
REMEMBER THIS ABOUT THE DEFENSE
Just how good has the Sun Devil defense been since Herb Sendek took over? ASU has given up less than 62 points per game in each of the past three seasons , the best three-season span since the middle of the past century. In the 18 Pac-10 games last year, no team defended shooters better than ASU, as it led the league in field goal percentage defense (.421) and three-point defense (.310). Those that followed Coach Sendek's career at NC State won't find it a big shocker. In his 10 seasons in Raleigh, NC State led the ACC in scoring defense four times and held opponents to just 54.7 points per game in 1996-97, an ACC record. Last year's 60.5 points per game allowed was the lowest by a Sun Devil team since the 1949-50 team gave up 59.8. ASU is currently giving up 54.5 points per contest.
ASU VS. UCLA
ASU swept the series last year with UCLA with a 74-67 win over the No. 11 Bruins on Feb. 12 in an ESPN contest. It marked ASU's third sweep of the Bruins in its 31-year Pac-10 history, as ASU also swept UCLA in 1979-80 and 2002-03. ASU ended one of the most impressive streaks in Pac-10 history as UCLA had won 32 straight front-end games of Pac-10 weekends (in other words, the Thursday game), a streak dating to a Jan. 20, 2005 home loss to Stanford. ASU shot 60 percent (24-of-40) from the floor, 11-of-18 (.611) from the three-point stripe and 15-of-18 (.833) in the win...ASU's win at No. 9 UCLA on Jan. 17, 2009, was its first top-10 road win since it beat fourth-ranked Stanford on Jan. 31, 1998, and just the second in the past 24 seasons. ASU won at Pauley Pavilion for just the sixth time in 32 times, and just the third time in the past 22...ASU had eight turnovers in the overtime win at UCLA on Jan. 17, the fewest turnovers on the road since Feb. 12, 2005, when it also had eight at USC. Derek Glasser had zero turnovers in 42 minutes against the team that was leading the Pac-10 in turnovers forced at 16.4 per game).
LAST YEAR AT PAULEY
ASU was down 54-43 with just over eight minutes to go but did not allow a UCLA field goal in regulation the rest of the way and topped the Bruins 61-58 in overtime at Pauley on Jan. 17. ASU shot 52.4 percent in the first half (11-of-21) and led 27-25 at the break. ASU held the Bruins to just 7-of-25 (.280) from the three-point stripe and had just eight turnovers, fewest on the road since Feb. 12, 2005.
GOOD ON THE TUBE
ASU is 14-3 in Fox Sports Net national games in the past three years, including 9-0 in 2008-2009. It lost its first appearance this year vs. Baylor 64-61 on Dec. 3..ASU was 3-2 in CBS games last year with wins over UCLA, Cal and Temple. In the previous 11 years, ASU was 1-4 in CBS games...ASU is 27-9 in national or network regional games (games on FSN, CBS or any of the ESPN networks), and 6-2 in past eight against ranked teams in TV games.
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