Manny Wilkins isn’t having any part of a midseason collapse.
“I refuse to let this team fall apart this early in the season,” he said during Wednesday’s media availability. “If [our] guys think this is going to be a cakewalk game, we can’t have that around the locker room.”
That’s the mentality that Wilkins – and head coach Herm Edwards – have expressed before facing Oregon State. Outside of the Beavers’ 23-point victory against Southern Utah, they’ve been blown out by an average of 23 points per game.
But Edwards and the ASU coaching staff won’t look at it like that.