ASU no pushover
Arizona State has to be the most fearsome last-place team in any conference in the country. The Sun Devils (6-19, 0-14) have lost by six points or less in each of the past five games, three of which came against ranked opponents. They led No. 5 UCLA by 10 points with about 10 minutes left before losing 67-61 yesterday.
``They're going to get that one game,'' Nick Young said. ``We just don't want it to be against us.''
Matthew Kredell broke into the Daily News in 1998, working part time
at the paper while going to USC. The basketball team’s Elite Eight
run in 2000-01 was USC’s athletic highlight in his time at the
school, when the football team was stuck in the Paul Hackett-era.
After graduating in 2001, he started writing for the Daily News full
time. He’s in his second year covering USC, which coincides with the
rise of the program. He’ll take credit for the success, though Tim
Floyd may have more to do with it. A third-generation Los Angelean,
he grew up reading the Daily News while at El Camino Real High School
in Woodland Hills.