Pac 12 Previews: Arizona State University
Last Season: The Sun Devils were 12-12 and 6-9 in Pac 12 Play.
The Coaching Staff:
Charli Turner Thorne returns for her 24th season as the Head Coach, and has taken the Sun Devils to the NCAAs 10 of her last 13 years of coaching.
Jackie Moore is in her 9th year as an Assistant at ASU and is now the Associate Head Coach. She has been an assistant at Miami of Florida, Boston College and Nevada.
Yvonne Sanchez will be in her first year coming from Michigan where she was an assistant for 3 seasons. Sanchez was Head Coach at New Mexico in the past for 5 years.
Nikki Blue the former UCLA star will be in her 3nd year as an assistant. Blue has Stanford connections having coached the past two years with Nicole Powell at Grand Canyon and then for three year prior for Coach McCall at Cal State Bakersfield.
Meg Saunders is a special assistant to Charli. This is Saunders 17th year on the staff .
The Losses:
Sydnei Caldwell, averaged 4 points. Caldwell transferred to Penn
Eboni Walker, averaged 7 points and 5 rebounds. Walker transferred to Syracuse.
Jamie Loera averaged 3 points.
Iris Mbulito averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds.
Bre’yanna Sanders averaged 3 points.
The Additions:
Meg Newman, 6-3 Forward/Post from IN ranked # 41
Ayzhiana Basallo, 5-5 Grad Transfer with 2 years of eligibility, a Guard from San Jose State. SJS only played 4 games this past season and Basallo sat out the 2018-19 season due to the transfer rule. In 2019-21 she averaged 18 points shooting 45% from three.
Mael Gilles, 6-1 Forward Grad Student from Rutgers she averaged 8 points and 4 rebounds last season.
Jade Loville , 5-10 Sr Wing with 2 years remaining to play. Jade transferred from Boise State where she averaged 17 points including 40 against UNLV.
Isadora Sousa, 6-0 Jr Guard a JC transfer who was 2nd team All American.
The Schedule:
The Team:
Taya Hanson is a 5-10 Sr Guard from Canada. Hanson averaged 13 points.
Jayde Van Hyfte is a 6-1 Redshirt Sr who played just one game and was injured. The year before she averaged 5 points and 5 rebounds.
Jaddan Simmons, 5-9 Soph PG, averaged 11 points.
Katelyn Levings, 6-3 Soph Forward who averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds.
Maggie Besselink, 6-3 Soph Forward who averaged 5 points and 6 rebounds.
Sydney Erikstrup, 6-1 Soph Wing averaged 4 minutes
Imogen Greenslade, 6-4 Soph Post averaged 9 minutes
Gabriela Bosquez, 5-7 Sr Guard from a Texas JC who averaged 7 minutes
Predictions:
ASU is a team with new players who will be depended on and a fairly young team. Hanson is a vet and solid player. However beyond that any of 8-9 could start. This isn’t the ASU of old, on the other hand great coach and they will play hard.
2022 Recruiting:
Trayanna Crisp, 5-7 Guard from Arizona, ranked # 73.
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