The Arizona State men's basketball team is going to have a chance to find out just how far it has come in the last 15 games — or not.
The Sun Devils (10-6, 1-2) return home for three games at Desert Financial Arena, the first coming at 7 p.m. Thursday against No. 20 Colorado (13-3,2-1), the same team it faced in the regular season opener in China. That game did not count toward the conference schedule.
ASU lost that contest 81-71 although it was close much of the way, tied at 59 with 10:19 to go. ASU only trailed 70-66 with 6:32 left, only to see Colorado pull away in the last few minutes.