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ASU Basketball: Sun Devils open NCAA Tournament vs. UCF

Arizona State doesn’t have much familiarity with its 2019 first-round opponent, the University of Central Florida.

The two schools have never played against one another, plus UCF has not even matched up with a Pac-12 team since Washington in 2009.

Both head coaches are certainly diving into tape to figure the other out, and ASU head coach Charli Turner Thorne knows the defensive style her squad is up against.

“Physical, aggressive team,” Turner Thorne said. “Forty minutes of zone. What they lack in size they make up for with aggressiveness. They are going to press for the entire game.