Arizona State Sun Devils NCAA Basketball News

Aubree Chesnut has always been able to balance academics and athletics - during a standout four-sport career at Post Falls High and a decorated four-year run on the basketball team that ended with All-Pac-10 honors as a senior in 2007.

Potential has replaced production on Arizona State's roster. This does not trouble senior point guard Derek Glasser.

He couldn't give stats or many specifics, but Don Flanagan's tone spoke volumes Saturday.

Arizona State coach Herb Sendek on Thursday thought back three years ago to when he arrived in Tempe and had to fill the Sun Devils roster.

Rihards Kuksiks shot 44.3 percent from 3-point range last season, eighth nationally among those who qualify.

Potential has replaced production on Arizona State's roster. James Harden and Jeff Pendergraph have gone to the NBA, leaving ASU with a slew of question marks as it tunes up for Herb Sendek's fourth season.

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Arizona, Arizona State and USC are first up in our three brief preseason status reports of the men's Pac-10 basketball teams ARIZONA STATE Guard Ty Abbott, one of three returning starters, tore meniscus in his knee in the first week of preseason practice and had arthroscopic knee surgery.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: The Bearcats signed nine players -- six of them 6-foot-7 or taller -- and the added height was supposed to build up a small team.

When the Thunder gathers as a team this morning and turns on the film from Monday night's game against Houston, Thabo Sefolosha , and James Harden should perk up and pay close attention.

Two weeks ago, Trent Lockett learned from a conversation with his mother that it was snowing back home in Minnesota.

Arizona State men's basketball coach Herb Sendek knows his team better than anyone, but even he admits that right now there are more questions than answers.

ASU's 25 victories last season were the most by the Sun Devils since the 1974-75 season.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Freshman Demetrius Walker, described five years ago by Sports Illustrated as "the next LeBron," is a 6-4 super-athletic wing player.

Arizona State went 8-22 and lost a school-record 15 straight games in point guard Derek Glasser's freshman year.

The Pac-10 has as many NCAA Tournament-worthy teams on paper in the preseason as the Atlantic-10.A California and Washington are bound for the tournament, and UCLA has lots of young talent but is no sure bet to go dancing.

The Pac-10 has churned out NBA guys at an alarming rate over the past couple of years.

Doug Haller's blog appears on azcentral.com. He covers ASU basketball & the Pac-10 for The Arizona Republic.

Cornell assistant coach Zach Spiker has agreed in principle to a six-year contract to replace Jim Crews as Army's men's basketball coach.

"He has the type of ability he could run away with Rookie of the Year, depending on what that guy in LA does," Livingston said.