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Game Notes: @SunDevilHoops at No. 9 Oregon Saturday at 7:30 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network

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Game Notes: @SunDevilHoops at No. 9 Oregon Saturday at 7:30 p.m. PT on Pac-12 NetworkGame Notes: @SunDevilHoops at No. 9 Oregon Saturday at 7:30 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network
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Remy Martin enters Saturday's game at Oregon with 998 career points.

The Arizona State Sun Devil men's hoops team (10-5; 1-1) -- coming off back-to-back NCAA Tournaments for the first time since 1980-81 and the only Pac-12 team to make the NCAAs the past two seasons -- hits the road to Eugene for a 7:30 p.m. PT tip against No. 9 Oregon on Saturday (Jan. 11) on Pac-12 Network.

--Quick note: prior to its past two NCAA appearances under Bobby Hurley, ASU had made the NCAA Tournament three times in previous 22 seasons (1996-2017).

--Remy Martin enters the game with 998 career points and has nine 20-point games on the year, second in the Pac-12 to WSU's C.J. Ellenby's 10.
 
GAME 14: ASU 82, @OREGON STATE 76 (JAN. 9, 2020): ASU did what it had to do and does quite well --bouncing back from a loss as it is 13-2 in the past two seasons -- in putting together a solid game in winning at Oregon State on Thursday late. ASU held OSU to just .348 shooting in the first half (8-of-23) and shot .519 in the second (14-of-27). A 9-0 scoring run in the first half gave ASU the cushion it needed and the lead reached 17 midway through the second half before a late OSU run. Remy Martin led ASU with 24 points, while Rob Edwards had 18 off the bench including four three-pointers. Romello White added 12 points and nine boards. ASU's bench outscored OSU's bench 27-12, as the Sun Devils are now 3-1 in Corvallis under Coach Hurley.
 
ABOUT THE ROAD: ASU is opening Pac-12 play with three straight on the road for the seventh time in the past 12 seasons and for the third time in Coach Hurley's five seasons, as it opened with three straight away from Tempe in 2017-18, 2016-17, 2014-15, 2011-12, 2010-11 and 2008-09. USC and ASU are the only Pac-12 teams to open with three straight on the road. Coach Hurley's squad navigated something similar as in the past three seasons six teams have opened with five of first seven on the road (as USC is doing this year). ASU in 2017-18 is the only one of the six teams to make the NCAA Tournament in that time.
 
DARN IT, HE WAS PLAYING WELL: Junior Romello White sprained his right ankle in the Dec. 28 game vs. Texas Southern and only played the first eight minutes, so his overall stats took a hit as he played limited minutes at Arizona on Jan. 4. He had 18 points and 17 rebounds in the Georgia win on Dec. 14 and was averaging 14.7 points and 13.7 rebounds and was 32-of-44 (.727) from the field in his previous six games to the Texas Southern game.
 
PAC-12 ROAD WINS: ASU's 5-4 Pac-12 road mark last year was its best since the 2009-10 and 2008-09 teams each went 5-4 as well and matched ASU's best Pac-12 road mark in 39 seasons. Last year was only ASU's sixth winning road record since it joined the Pac-10 in 1978-79 (41 seasons). Ned Wulk's 1980-81 (8-1) and 1979-80 (7-2) teams set the bar, while Bill Frieder's 1994-95 Sweet Sixteen team also went 5-4.
 
AS PAC-12 PLAY BEGINS: ASU finished second in the Pac-12 for just the fourth time in its 41-year Pac-10/12 history last year (2009-10, 1980-81 and 1979-80). ASU won 12 loop games for just the sixth time.
 
SUN DEVIL BEST PAC-12 RECORDS 
16-2: 1980-81 
15-3: 1979-80
12-6: 2018-19, 2009-10, 1994-95, 1982-83
 
PAC-12 STATS: ASU leads the Pac-12 in steals at 8.7 per game (130 in 15 games). The school record is 345 in 1994-95…ASU ranks sixth in the league in three-point field goal defense (.314)…ASU's +3.73 turnover margin is second in the league…Remy Martin ranks first in steals (2.07 per game with 31) and sixth in scoring (18.47)…Romello White leads the league in rebounding (9.64) and is second in field goal percentage (.659).
 
SOME SOLID DUBS: Bobby Hurley has led ASU to a 47-16 regular season non-conference record in his five years, with notable wins over NC State, at Creighton, Texas A&M, UNLV (twice), Stephen F. Austin, Kansas State, Xavier, St. John's (twice plus a NCAA Tournament win), Kansas (twice), Vanderbilt and Georgia (twice).
 
COOL: ASU had been to four NCAA Tournaments (1995, 2003, 2009 and 2014) in 26 seasons (1992-2017) and not been back-to-back since 1980-81. Remy Martin, Kimani Lawrence and Romello White have now gone to the Dance in each of their first two seasons.
 
WHO WE LOST: Three regular rotation players are gone from last year, including All-Pac-12 performers Zylan Cheatham and Lu Dort (Pac-12 Freshman of the Year), as well as De'Quon Lake.
 
REMY NOTE: Junior Remy Martin posted a career-high 33 points at Princeton on Nov. 26 and has nine 20-point games on the year (16 in career). He is averaging 18.47 points per game this year after averaging 11.3 in his first two years. He enters the Oregon game with 998 career points in 79 games (12.6 points per game).

REMY MARTIN 20+ SCORING TILTS (16)
33 at Princeton (11/26/19)
31 vs. Arizona (1/31/19)
27 at Arizona (3/9/19)
24 at Oregon State (1/9/20)
24 at California (1/9/19)
23 vs. Texas Southern (12/28/19)
23 vs. Georgia (12/14/19)
23 vs. Colorado/China (11/9/19)
22 vs. Utah (1/3/19)
21 vs. Prairie View A&M (12/11/19)
21 vs. #7 Virginia (11/23/19)
21 at Georgia (12/15/18)
21 at #2 Kansas (12/10/17)
20 at #25 Arizona (1/4/20)
20 vs. Rider (11/17/19)
20 vs. Colorado/Las Vegas (3/7/18)

ON THE ROAD (AGAIN) TO START PAC-12: ASU opened Pac-12 on the road for the eighth time in past dozen seasons when it traveled to Arizona on Jan. 4. Ironically with the 20-game league slate and opening weekends announced, ASU will travel to Cal and make it nine times in past 13 years to open the Pac-12 season on the road next year.

 
SUN DEVIL PAC-12 OPENERS PAST 12 SEASONS (AND ALSO NEXT YEAR -- HOME GAMES BOLD)
ASU @California (Dec. 3, 2020)
@#25 Arizona 75, ASU 47 (Jan. 4, 2020)
Utah 96, ASU 86 (Jan. 3, 2019)
@#17 Arizona 84, #3 ASU 78 (Dec. 30, 2017)
ASU 98, @Stanford 93 (Dec. 30, 2016)
#4 Arizona 94, ASU 82 (Jan. 3, 2016)
@#8 Arizona 73, ASU 49 (Jan. 4, 2015)
Washington 76, ASU 65 (Jan. 2, 2014)
ASU 55, Utah 54 OT (Jan. 2, 2013)
@Arizona 68, ASU 51 (Dec. 31, 2011)
@Oregon State 80, ASU 58 (Dec. 30, 2010)
@UCLA 72, ASU 70 (Dec. 31, 2009)
ASU 90, @Stanford 60 (Jan. 2, 2009) 
 
CLOSE OUT AND HAND UP: Sun Devil opponents are shooting .314 from the three-point stripe, the best defensive mark in ASU history.
 
SUN DEVIL BEST THREE-POINT DEFENSE TEAMS
.314, 2019-20 (98-312)
.317, 2009-10 (181-571)
.319, 2008-09 (212-665)
.326, 2012-13 (175-536)
.333, 1994-95 (137-411)
.334, 2018-19 (292-874)
 
LOTS OF HOTEL PENS: ASU played five of its first seven in Shanghai, Connecticut, New Jersey and San Francisco as it spent 17 of its first 32 nights of the season in a hotel and flew 20,134 miles on nine flights. When Coach Hurley took the ASU job in April of 2015 he said ASU was going to play some folks and not be afraid to go on the road. ASU's tally of non-conference states in his five years is at 11 with other trips to the Bahamas (vs. Kentucky) and China. ASU has played non-conference games in New York (MSG and Barclays), Nebraska (Creighon), at Kentucky, Nevada (at UNLV), Florida (Old Spice Classic), California (San Francisco and San Diego State), at Kansas, at Georgia, Tennessee (Vanderbilt) and New Jersey (at Princeton).
 
CARRIED LEAGUE: In Bobby Hurley's first four seasons, ASU led the Pac-12 in wins over ranked out-of-conference teams in the regular season (five) with wins over Kansas (twice), Xavier, Mississippi State and Texas A&M. Four of the wins were away from Tempe. The rest of the league was 15-42 in those four seasons and seven of the teams had one or zero wins.
 
PHYSICAL: Top wingspans on the team are Jalen Graham (7-2), Romello White (7-0) and Kimani Lawrence (6-11 1/2). Best standing vertical is Graham (32.5"), while Remy Martin is next (31.5") while best approach verticals are Remy (40.5"), Jaelen  House (39.5") and Graham (39").
 
ROAD: ASU won at Princeton (67-65/Nov. 26) and San Francisco (71-67/Dec. 3), as it is 7-2 (.778) in OOC road games under Bobby Hurley, after going 8-22 (.267) in its previous 30 efforts.
 
ASU OUT OF CONFERENCE ROADIES UNDER BOBBY HURLEY (7-2)
ASU 71, San Francisco 67 (Dec. 3, 2019)
ASU 67, Princeton 65 (Nov. 26, 2019)
Vanderbilt 81, ASU 65 (Dec. 17, 2018)
#20 ASU 76, Georgia 74 (Dec. 15, 2018)
#16 ASU 95, #2 Kansas 85 (Dec. 10, 2017)
ASU 74, San Diego State 63 (Dec. 10, 2016)
ASU 66, UNLV 56 (Dec. 16, 2015)
#5 Kentucky 72, ASU 58 (Dec. 5, 2015)
ASU 79, Creighton 77 (Dec. 2, 2015)
 
2018-19 QUICK REVIEW: ASU was 23-11 and 12-6 (second) in the Pac-12 after being picked sixth in the preseason media poll. It beat No. 1 Kansas on Dec. 22, ASU's first win over No. 1 at home and second all-time (won at Oregon State in March of 1981) and notched first NCAA Tournament win since 2009 with a 74-65 victory over St. John's on March 20.
 
THAT HALFTIME STAT: ASU has 23 wins (11 on the road) when trailing at the half under Bobby Hurley in five seasons, after going 12-64 (.157) the previous five seasons. It did it seven times in 2017-18 and did it in 2018-19 at Georgia, vs. No. 1 Kansas, at California, at UCLA, vs. Cal and at Oregon State. This year it has halftime comeback wins over St. John's and at Princeton.
 
ROB EDWARDS TOP SUN DEVIL SCORING TILTS
28 at Utah (2/16/19)
23 vs. CCSU (11/14/19)
20 vs. Colorado/China (11/9/19)
19 vs. Arizona (1/31/19)
18 at Oregon State (1/9/20)
17 vs. Louisiana (12/7/19)
16 vs. California (2/24/19)
16 vs. Stanford (2/20/19)
15 vs. Oregon (3/15/19)
15 vs. UCLA 3/14/19)
15 vs. #1 Kansas (12/22/18)
 
ROMELLO WHITE PAST NOTES: When he shoots it, he usually makes it. Romello made .625 of his shots in his first two seasons including 120-of-184 in his freshman year...coached by Jerry Stackhouse in the Atlanta AAU circuit...started 63 of 65 games his first two years and led team in offensive boards in each of the past two seasons with 77 last year and 79 in 2017-18...has two of the best field goal percentage mark's in Sun Devil history as he shot .652 in freshman year (fourth in Sun Devil record book) and .598 last year (ninth-best).)
 
ROMELLO WHITE TOP REBOUNDING GAMES
17 vs. Georgia (Dec. 14, 2019)
16 vs. Prairie View A&M (Dec. 11, 2019)
15 vs. San Diego State (Nov. 14, 2017)
14 vs. Louisiana (Dec. 7, 2019)
14 vs. Texas Southern (Dec. 1, 2018)
14 at Washington (Feb. 1, 2018)
13 vs. San Francisco (Dec. 2, 2018)
12 vs. Creighton (Dec. 21, 2019)
12 vs. Saint Mary's (Dec. 18, 2019)
 
REMY: Everyone loves Remy. Those in maroon and gold really love Remy because his two best scoring games last year were wins over Arizona -- 31 in 95-88 double OT win on Jan. 31 and 27 in final game of regular season on road on March 9).led ASU to first sweep over Arizona since 2008-09 and first win in Tucson since 2010...40-inch vertical jump... second-team All-Pac-12 by the league's coaches in 2018-19...notched 21 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals to spark Sun Devils back from an 18-point deficit to a 76-74 victory at Georgia on Dec. 15, 2018, leading to his Dec. 17 Pac-12 Player of the Week Award. Had 12 points, five boards, two assists and two steals in the second half, including back-to-back baskets inside the final 3:11 which gave ASU its first lead of game at 71-70....led Pac-12 with a 2.4 assist-to-turnover ratio and second in league at five apg..had his November and early December of 2018 ruined by a bum ankle.
 
STARTING LINEUP COMBINATIONS (7)
Cherry, Edwards, Martin, Verge, White (3): Creighton, TSU, @UA
Cherry, Edwards, Martin, Valtonen, White (2): Georgia, SMC
Cherry, Lawrence, Martin, Verge, White (1): @OSU
Edwards, Martin, Thomas, Valtonen, White (3): @USF, LA, PVAM
Edwards, Lawrence, Martin, Valtonen, White (3): SJU, UVA, @PU
Edwards, Lawrence, Martin, Verge, White (1): Rider
Edwards, Graham, Lawrence, Martin, Verge (2): CCSU, CU