Feb. 8, 2013
SUCCESSFUL AT HOME
The Sun Devil men's hoops team (18-5; 7-3) plays host to a 5 p.m. MT tilt vs. Stanford on Saturday (Feb. 9) after topping California 66-62 on Thursday. ASU is now 14-2 at home on the season (the school record for home wins is 16-4 in 2009-10) and will try and sweep the Bay Area schools at home for the first time since 1994-95, which is also the last time ASU started 7-3 as that Sweet Sixteen squad started 8-3. Dave Flemming and Sean Farnham have the call on ESPNU. ASU has won four of past five and is averaging 79.4 points in those five tilts.
QUICKLY
Evan Gordon is averaging 16.2 points and 39.0 minutes in the past five games after his 23-point effort vs. California on Feb. 7...senior Ruslan Pateev tied a career-high with 12 points and made a career-high six field goals (and tied a career-high with nine attempts) and added season-high eight rebounds in a season-high 26 minutes off the bench vs. California...sophomore Jonathan Gilling is averaging 10.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists in the past five games...ASU ranks second in Pac-12 in scoring through 10 conference games at 70.8 ppg. and also leads league in field goal percentage (.458)...Jahii Carson is tied for league lead in points per game in those 10 tilts (18.4) with Roberto Nelson of Oregon State.
RUSLAN UPDATE
Don't sleep on the minutes senior Ruslan Pateev is giving ASU recently. In past six games he is averaging 15.7 minutes, 4.7 points and 3.3 rebounds and has seven blocks. He is 11-of-17 (.647) from the floor in that time.
TOP PAC-12 FRESHMAN SCORING AVERAGE (ALL GAMES)
1. 21.1-Shareef Abdur-Rahim, CAL, 1996
2. 20.6-Harold Miner, USC, 1990
3. 20.7-O.J. Mayo, USC, 2008
4. 19.7-Jerryd Bayless, ARIZ, 2008
5. 19.0-Ike Diogu, ASU, 2003
6. 18.6-Don MacLean, UCLA, 1989
7. 18.4-Shabazz Muhammad, UCLA, 2013
7. 18.4-Cliff Robinson, USC, 1978
9. 18.0-Jahii Carson, ASU, 2013
10. 17.8-James Harden, ASU, 2008
#FUN2CJAHII
Here are some notes to fill a blog on what freshman Jahii Carson is up to these days...averaging 20.5 points, 4.8 assists, 3.4 boards in past 8 tilts...in the past seven games in the second half alone he is averaging 14.3 points and shooting 36-of-65 (.554) from the floor and 6-of-11 (.545) from the three-point stripe...in the four Pac-12 road games Jahii is averaging 24.3 points, 36.8 minutes, and is shooting .548 (40-of-73) from the field with 15 assists and just five turnovers...notched his 11th 20-point game at Washington on Feb. 2. The only Sun Devil freshmen with more are James Harden (16 in 2007-08) and Ike Diogu (12 in 2002-03)...has set the school freshman mark for assists with 119, breaking the 28-year old mark of 114 set by Bobby Thompson in 1983-84...in seven games away from home Jahii is averaging 23.4 points, 4.6 assists, 36.9 minutes and is shooting 53.9 percent (62-of-115)...averaging a Pac-12 best 36.2 minutes per game, the best mark by a freshman in Sun Devil history (Beard lighting up NBA averaged 34.1 in 2007-08) and most by a Pac-12 frosh since O.J. Mayo averaged 36.9 in 2007-08.
WHERE JAHII RANKS AMONG FRESHMEN NATIONALLY (LEADER IN PARENTHESES)
FREE THROWS MADE: Tied for 1st/102
FREE THROWS ATTEMPTED: Tied for 3rd/142 (Archie Goodwin, Kentucky, 141)
MINUTES PER GAME: 2nd/36.2 (Siyani Chambers, Harvard, 37.7)
ASSISTS: 4th/5.2 (Siyani Chambers, Harvard, 6.1)
SCORING: 3rd/18.0 (Shabazz Muhammad, UCLA, 18.6)
2 FIRST NAMES; 3 PAC-12 PLAYER OF WEEKS
Carrick Felix (B.S., Communications 2012) has posted a double-double in three of the past five games (16/10 vs. USC, 23/11 vs. UCLA, 11/10 at Washington State). An impressive stat is he has played 182 minutes in those five games and committed just five turnovers. He did not commit a turnover in the 44-minute overtime 98-93 track meet vs. USC on Jan. 24 or in the road win at WSU on Jan. 31. He earned his third Pac-12 Player of the Week award following the UCLA/USC weekend and has five double-doubles in 10 Pac-12 games.
1,000-POINT SCORER
Evan Gordon is averaging 16.0 points and 38.4 minutes and is 41-of-82 (.500) from the field in the past seven games...averaging 16.2 points and 39.0 minutes in the past five games...with 17 points at Oregon on Jan. 14 Evan Gordon (brother of NBA guard Eric) reached the 1,000-point mark in his college career. He averaged 14.4 points in 2010-11 (460 points) and 12.0 in his freshman year of 2009-10 (372 points) and has 263 points this year (11.4 pg). He is averaging 12.7 points in 86 career games. After starting the year 7-of-34 (.206) from the three-point stripe in first six games he has made 39-of-99 (.402) in past 17. His 29-point effort vs. Sacramento State on Dec. 1 is a career high including his two years at Liberty as he has 12 20-point games. He made 112 three-pointers in his two-year career at Liberty and led Liberty in scoring (14.4 ppg., eighth in Big South) in his sophomore year (2010-11) before transferring to ASU. He has 1,095 career points.
EVAN'S 12 20-POINT GAMES
29 vs. Sacramento State (12/1/12)
28 vs. USC (1/24/13)
26 at Coastal Carolina (2/3/11)
26 vs. Winthrop (12/4/10)
24 vs. Charleston Southern (2/27/10)
24 at VMI (1/2/10)
23 vs. California (2/7/13)
23 vs. Virginia Intermount (11/12/10)
22 at Presbyterian (1/7/10)
21 vs. Charleston Southern (12/3/09)
20 vs. CS Northridge (12/8/12)
20 vs. Radford (2/10/11)
MOST POINTS BY SUN DEVIL IN PAC-10/12 GAME UNDER HERB
36, James Harden at Oregon (Feb. 5, 2009)
32, Jahii Carson at Washington (Feb. 2, 2013)
31, Jeff Pendergraph at Stanford (Jan. 2, 2009)
30, Ty Abbott vs. California (Feb. 16, 2008)
29, Ty Abbott vs. Stanford (Jan. 30, 2010)
29, Jeff Pendergraph at Arizona (Feb. 10, 2008)
28, Evan Gordon vs. USC (Jan. 24, 2013)
28, Ty Abbott at Arizona (Feb. 21, 2010)
THIS WAS IMPRESSIVE
ASU outrebounded UCLA 53-33 on Jan. 26, and the +20 margin is the biggest rebounding margin in a conference game for ASU under Coach Sendek. Its 98 points vs. USC was the third-most in the Coach Sendek era at ASU.
BLOCK PARTY
ASU has 160 blocks in 23 games (7.0 per game) which enters this weekend as fourth in the nation and opponents have taken 1,408 shots so that means every 8.8 field goal attempt gets blocked by a Sun Devil...junior Jordan Bachynski has 92 blocks (4.0 PG) and last year's Pac-12 leader, Eric Moreland of Oregon State, fihished with 69/1.9 bpg...in the first 41 games of his career Jordan Bachynski shot 42-of-88 (.478) from field. In the past 35 games he is 134-213 (.629)...ASU has 160 blocks on the year, the most by a Sun Devil squad since the 1996-97 team had school record 172.
SUN DEVIL SEASON BLOCKS
1. 172 - 1996-97
2. 165 - 1994-95
2. 165 - 1978-79
4. 160 - 2012-13
(UCLA holds Pac-12 record for blocks with 199 in 2010-11)
CLOSE GAME STATS
ASU is now 8-4 in overtime under Coach Sendek after its 55-54 win over Utah on Jan. 2 and its 98-93 track meet win vs. USC on Jan. 24. Many say that a two-possession game (six points) is a close game, and if you go by that ASU is 32-24 (.571) in those contests in the past six seasons.
THREES
ASU had 14 three-pointers at Texas Tech on Dec. 22, just the 12th time in school history it had hit 14 and it tied for the second-most in a road game. ASU hit 16 at Brigham Young on Dec. 1, 1992, and also had 14 at Oregon on Jan. 30, 1993.
JAHII
Jahii Carson, with 20 points at Oregon State (Jan. 10) and at Oregon (Jan. 13), became the first Sun Devil freshman to get back-to-back 20-point games on a Pac-12 road trip since Steve Beck in the Bay Area on March 1-3, 1984. Beck had four 20-point games in Pac-12 road games, as did James Harden (2007-08), Ike Diogu (2002-03) and Jamal Faulkner (1990-91), but none of that trio did it on the same Pac-12 road weekend and now his streak is at four 20-point games on the road with 25 at Washington State and 32 at Washington.
SUN DEVIL FRESHMEN MOST POINTS PER GAME
1. 19.0 - Ike Diogu, 2002-03
2. 18.0 - Jahii Carson, 2012-13
3. 17.8 - James Harden, 2007-08
SUN DEVIL FRESHMEN TOP MINUTES PER GAME
1. 36.2 - Jahii Carson, 2012-13 (leads Pac-12 in minutes per game)
2. 34.1 - James Harden, 2007-08; 3. 32.7 - Ty Abbott, 2007-08
4. 32.3 - Byron Scott, 1979-80; 5. 32.2 - Ike Diogu, 2002-03
SUN DEVIL FRESHMEN 20-POINT GAMES (1972-73 to present)
1. James Harden, 2007-08, 16
2. Ike Diogu, 2002-03, 12
3. Jahii Carson, 2012-13, 11
JAHII'S 20-POINT GAMES (11)
32 at Washington (Feb. 2, 2013)
30 vs. #14 Creighton @Las Vegas (11/24/12)
25 at Washington State (1/3113)
22 vs. #7 Arizona (1/19/13)
21 vs. USC (1/24/13)
21 vs. CS Northridge (12/8/12)
21 vs. Cornell (11/20/12)
20 at UO (1/13/13)
20 at OSU (1/10/13)
20 vs. Hartford (12/5/12)
20 vs. Fla. A&M (11/18/12)
TOP FRESHMEN ROAD SCORING GAMES IN PAC-12 HISTORY
37, O.J. Mayo, USC at Arizona State, Mar. 1, 2008
34, Roberto Nelson, Oregon State at Arizona State, Mar. 5, 2011
34, O.J. Mayo, USC at California, Jan. 3, 2008
32, Jahii Carson, Arizona State at Washington, Feb. 2, 2013
32, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, California at Washington State, Jan. 25, 1996
GILLING AND ABLE
Sophomore Jonathan Gilling has 162 rebounds (7.0 pg) after posting 54 last season. He has made 30 three-pointers in the past 12 games. He posted a career high 22 at UW on Feb. 2 (including a career-best six threes). Gilling also had 18 points at Texas Tech on Dec. 22 and 14 at OSU on Jan. 10 and vs. Coppin State on Dec. 29. He has three double-doubles with 13/11/6 vs. USC on Jan. 24, 12/10 against CU on Jan. 6 and 13/15 vs. Florida A&M on Nov. 18. He is averaging 10.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.6 assists in the past five games.
JORDAN BLOCK-SHYNSKI
In his first six seasons (197 games) at ASU, the Sun Devils had nine blocks four times. It has had at least nine blocks nine times this season. An overlooked block statistic for Jordan is keeping it in play. Of his 92 blocks, 57 have resulted in possession for ASU. He has 153 career blocks. The Sun Devil career record is 191 (Mario Bennett from 1991-95).
PAC-12 SINGLE SEASON BLOCKED SHOTS LEADERS
1. 115 - Mario Bennett, Arizona State, 1994-95
2. 113 - Rodger Farrington, Arizona State, 1996-97
3. 102 - Jelani McCoy, UCLA, 1995-96
3. 102 - Loren Woods, Arizona, 1999-2000
5. 100 - Taj Gibson, USC, 2008-09
6. 92 - Jordan Bachynski, Arizona State, 2012-13
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