The Arizona State women's basketball team's climb to a school-best No. 2 NCAA Tournament seed has been three years in the making, but the past two weeks will determine how prepared the Sun Devils are to make a deep postseason run.
Coach Charli Turner Thorne said her team "ran out of gas" playing on the road four of the past six weeks through the Pac-12 Tournament, contributing to losses against UCLA and California in the last two games. Still they were 8-3 during that stretch for 25-6 overall, sharing the Pac-12 regular-season title with Oregon State.
With time off since March 4 for rest and practice, Turner Thorne believes the Sun Devils who won 15 straight and 22 out of 23 will re-emerge in a home NCAA Tournament sub-regional starting Friday against No.