@SunDevilHoops Hosts Huskies at 7 p.m. Thursday on ESPN2

The Arizona State Sun Devil men's hoops team (19-10; 10-6) -- 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 -- puts its 15-4 record after a loss the past two seasons to test with a home game vs. the Washington Huskies on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m. on ESPN2 with Dave Pasch and Bill Walton on the call. ASU will try and sweep the Huskies for the first time since 2016-17 and just the second time in the past 17 seasons.

QUICK STATS: Prior to its past two NCAA appearances under Bobby Hurley, ASU had made the NCAA Tournament three times in previous 22 seasons (1996-2017), but the Sun Devils are making a run at a third straight for the first time since the early 1960s as it has won nine of its past 12, with two of the losses (75-72 at UCLA Feb. 27 and 67-65 at WSU on Jan. 29) decided by three-pointers in the final seconds. ASU had its seven-game Pac-12 win streak -- an ASU first since the 1980-81 team won 11 straight -- ended in the 75-72 great tilt at UCLA. The Sun Devils are 15-4 (.789) in the past two seasons after a loss, including 6-3 this year.

PAC-12 REFRESHER: ASU has a chance to do what it did last year that it rarely had done prior...get to 12-6 and finish second. 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) and won at least 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

LAST MEETING: ASU 87, @WASHINGTON 83 (FEB. 1): ASU put five players in double figures led by Remy Martin's 19 and used an early lead and great free throw shooting to win at Seattle. The Sun Devils were 27-of-33 (.818) from the foul line -- including 21-of-25 in the second half -- and outrebounded UW 42-33. ASU led for 38:32 and trailed only once one minute into the game (2-1). The ASU bench outscored the UW bench 32-13. Rob Edwards, Romello White and Alonzo Verge Jr. all had 18 while Khalid Thomas added 10.

LAST TIME HUSKIES CAME TO TEMPE: Washington only lost three Pac-12 games last year, but one of them was to ASU as the Sun Devils topped Huskies 75-63 on Feb. 9, tagging UW with its first conference loss and ending its 12-game winning streak. ASU shot 61.7 from the field (29-of-47), its best shooting night in conference play since Feb. 2, 2013. Romello White scored 17 on 8-of-9 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds. ASU was the first opponent to score more than 70 points against Washington in 13 games and held UW to 36.8 percent shooting from the field.

60 PERCENT SHOOTING BY ASU IN PAC-10/12 GAME (PAST 14 SEASONS)
.651/28-43 vs. Oregon State (Jan. 8, 2009)
.638/37-58 at Washington (Feb. 2, 2013)
.617/29-47 vs. Washington (Feb. 9, 2019)
.611/22-36 at USC (Jan. 5, 2012)
.600/24-40 vs. UCLA (Feb.12, 2009)

PAC-12 HOME RECORD: ASU enters this week 6-1 in Pac-12 home games and will try and go 8-1 for just the fifth time in its 42 years of Pac-12 play (2013-14, 1982-83, 1980-81 and 1979-80).