Jan. 4, 2009
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*Cal shot an ASU opponent's season best 58 percent from the field (29-of-50). Its 29 field goals and its 52.9 percent from the three-point stripe (9-of-17) also were ASU opponent season highs.
*ASU matched season lows with 11 assists (also at San Diego State), nine turnovers (also vs. Idaho State) and 34 second-half points (also vs. Pepperdine and Nebraska).
*ASU's nine turnovers at California were its fewest in a road game since it had eight at USC on Feb. 12, 2005.
*Cal's four blocks was an ASU opponent season high.
*Jeff Pendergraph fouled out for the first time this season. He has just 32 fouls on the year through 14 games.
*Cal matched ASU opponent season lows with eight turnovers (Baylor) and 11 fouls (IUPUI).
*After going 8-22 (.267) in Coach Sendek's first year, the Sun Devils are 33-15 (.688) since.
*Four Sun Devils are in double digits: James Harden (23.4), Jeff Pendergraph (14.3), Rihards Kuksiks (10.6) and Ty Abbott (10.2).
*ASU's starting five is shooting 78.3 percent from the free throw line (187-of-239).
*In ASU's past eight games, sophomore Rihards Kuksiks is averaging 12.9 points and 5.0 boards, including 27-of-47 (.574) from the three-point stripe. He has 253 points and 15 double-figure scoring games in his past 26 contests (9.7 ppg.) dating to last year after scoring 42 points in the first 22 games last season.
*Jeff Pendergraph, who earned his B.S. in Economics in December in just three and a half years, is shooting .769 from the free throw line in his career (299-of-389) and is 46-of-55 (.836) on the year.
*Derek Glasser is 117-of-144 (.813) in his career at the free throw line and has 69 assists and just 32 turnovers on the year (2.15-to-1 ratio). He also has 300 career assists (3.85 per game), on pace to break the ASU career record of 454 set by Bobby Thompson from 1983-87. He had a season-high 13 points in the Stanford win and has double-digits in four of the past six games. He is averaging eight points per game in that time and is 9-of-15 (.600) from the three-point stripe in that time.
*James Harden through 48 career games has led ASU in scoring 36 times, rebounding 16 times and has led it in assists in 19 games. He has 25 career 20-point games and nine this year (ASU is 20-5 and 7-2).
*ASU shot .739 from the free throw line last year, the fifth-best mark in ASU history and second-best in past 21 seasons and is shooting at a school-record pace of 76.0 (212-of-279) this year.
ASU FREE THROW PERCENTAGE
1. 2008-09 (12-2/212-279)-76.0
2. 1977-78 (13-14/6-8 in WAC)-75.6
3. 1954-55 (10-14/8-4 in Border)-75.4
4. 1997-98 (18-14/8-10 in Pac-10)-74.6
4. 1986-87 (11-17/6-12 in Pac-10)-74.6
6. 2007-08 (21-13/9-9 in Pac-10)-73.9