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Turner Thorne's Substitution Patterns Benefit Her Players

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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Women's basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne likes to use the Sun Devils' depth against her opponents.

"It's something we get a lot of compliments on, but then when it comes around to recruiting, we hear about people trying to mislead kids on how we sub[stitute]," Turner Thorne said. "People will tell them it's like hockey line subbing. They'll say, 'oh, if you go to ASU, you're only going to get to play a couple minutes at a time,' which is nonsense.

"We only do that when we are blowing teams out by 20-plus points and then I do that because we don't want to embarrass teams.