TEMPE - Following a triumphant trip to Brooklyn, plenty of eyes were now focused on the upstart Sun Devils.
To follow up the statement wins against VCU and Michigan, Arizona State (5-1), Bobby Hurley and company packed the momentum on the cross-country plane ride and kept it with them in an 80-49 route of Grambling State (2-2) at home.
It’s hard to lose basketball games when your opponents shoot 27% from the field. What may be harder though, is finding a defense in the country that has been as lockdown as Arizona State’s. Having not allowed 70 points yet this year, the Sun Devils defensive pressure was taken to a new plateau against the Tigers, allowing season-lows in points, field-goal percentage and three-point percentage.