A new basketball season is right around the corner for the Sun Devils and the latest preseason checkpoint was Pac-12 Media Day on Tuesday.
Coach Charli Turner Thorne was joined by guards Taya Hanson and Jaddan Simmons in San Francisco, along with representatives from the other 11 schools.
For a team that was voted eighth in the Pac-12 preseason coaches poll, there is definitely optimism that this team will finish higher than that projection. That confidence was exhibited by Turner Thorne in one remark: “What a difference a year makes.”
All-in on another level
One of the biggest storylines during the 2020-21 season, besides the pandemic, was the youth and inexperience of ASU.