Overview
- Tip is set for Saturday at 7 p.m. ET at Lee’s Family Forum, with television coverage on TNT.
- Both teams enter at 8-2, and BetMGM lists Santa Clara as a 2.5-point favorite with a 156.5 over/under.
- Arizona State has won six of its last seven games and has lifted its three-point accuracy to 38.4%, led by Bryce Ford’s 43.9% from deep.
- Point guards headline the scoring with ASU’s Moe Odum at 17.2 points and 5.9 assists per game and Santa Clara’s Christian Hammond at 17.2 points.
- Rebounding looms for ASU, which is 5-0 when it wins the glass, while Santa Clara rates among the national leaders in assists (18.6 per game) and blocks (5.6) under former ASU coach Herb Sendek; Arizona State won last year’s meeting at the same venue 81-74.