Arizona State finished 35th in the 2022-23 LEARFIELD Director's Cup standings, highlighted by best season in school history in men's swimming, the men's outdoor track and field team's best finish (fifth) since 2010, more top-10 finishes for wrestling and men's golf as well, a healthy season from gymnastics as well as soccer and men's basketball keeping the NCAA Tournament momentum going.
Here is a sport-by-sport breakdown of the sports that notched points.
2022-23 LEARFIELD DIRECTORS' CUP -- 7th IN PAC-12 -- 659 TOTAL POINTS -- 35th OVERALL
90.00 -- Men's Swimming (2nd)
75.00 -- Men's Outdoor Track and Field (5th)
72.75 -- Men's Golf (5th)
72.00 -- Wrestling (7th)
60.80 -- Gymnastics (13th/NCAA Regional Appearance)
54.00 -- Men's Indoor Track and Field (19th)
50.00 -- Men's Tennis (NCAA Round of 32/17th)
47.00 -- Women's Swimming (27th)
34.00 -- Women's Golf (NCAA Regional appearance/T-37th)
28.50 -- Women's Outdoor Track and Field (43rd)
25.00 -- Men's Basketball (NCAA first-round appearance)
25.00 -- Soccer (NCAA first-round appearance)
25.00 -- Women's Tennis (NCAA first-round appearance/33rd)
MEN'S SWIMMING (2ND PLACE / 90 POINTS)
Men's swimming put a stamp on their incredible 2022-23 season by finishing second at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center to secure the best national finish in school history. The Sun Devils had previously never finished better than sixth at the national championships. Their two best showings, both sixth-place efforts, came in 1982 and 2022. They scored just 236 points at last year's championship, a number they cleared after the 10th event this week. Léon Marchand took the 200 breast in NCAA record-setting time of 1:46.91, breaking his own mark of 1:47.67 that he set at the Pac-12 Championships. Marchand won the 200 IM, 200 breast and 400 IM this week in Minneapolis, setting new NCAA records in each event. The Sun Devils stormed to their first Pac-12 Championship in program history in early March, where they won nine races, broke eight school records and never once let go of their clutch of first place. It snapped a streak of five consecutive conference titles won by the Cal Golden Bears. In December, the Sun Devils earned the No. 1 ranking in the country by the CSCAA for the first time in school history. They steamrolled their way through the early months of 2023, taking down No. 12 Stanford, No. 2 Cal and No. 19 Arizona in a two-week span. They carried that momentum into March, where they compiled the greatest postseason stretch in school history. Marchand earned Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year and CSCAA Division I Swimmer of the Year honors for the second consecutive season. Jonny Kulow was named the conference's Freshman of the Year, becoming the fourth Sun Devil of the Bob Bowman era to win the award.
MEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD (5TH / 75 POINTS)
Dion Miller's Sun Devils had one of the best track and field seasons in over a decade in 2023. The outdoor season saw ASU earn 10 All-Americans, a pair of Pac-12 titles, four program records, 19 program record updates, and a near NCAA 4x400 record. Turner Washington earned his fifth NCAA title and became a nine-time All-American; the men's 4x100 and 4x400 relay squads both ran program records at the NCAA Championships - the 4x400 time being the No. 3 time in NCAA history; Christina Warren broke the program triple jump record in back-to-back meets; and Adriana Tatum and Jeremiah Curry both shattered ASU's men's and women's 200m records. The Sun Devils celebrated the men's 4x400 relay and high jumper Grace Campbell earning gold medals at the Pac-12 Championships, with seven total medals being earned at the conference championships.
MEN'S GOLF (5TH / 72.75 POINTS)
The Sun Devil men's golf team under seventh-year head coach and GCAA 2022-23 West Region Coach of the Year Matt Thurmond advanced to NCAA championship match play for the third straight season, finished third in the Golfstat rankings, won its Thunderbird Invitational and the Las Vegas Regional while sophomore Preston Summerhays earned first-team All-America honors. ASU did all that with just one returning starter (Summerhays) from its 2022 NCAA semifinalist lineup and had two freshmen in the lineup most of the year. Arizona State posted a 143-27-3 head-to-head record on the season (per Golfweek), and had the most wins of any team against both top 25 (68-26-3) and top 50 (104-27-3) foes. ASU's schedule was second-best in nation, behind only Texas.
WRESTLING (SEVENTH PLACE / 72 POINTS)
ASU finished seventh overall at the NCAA Championships in Tulsa. It had four All-Americans and a pair of top-three finishers. Brandon Courtney and Michael McGee finished third at 125 and133, respectively, while 149 Kyle Parco finished fourth and HWT Cohlton Schultz finished seventh. It's the first time a pair of Sun Devils have finished top three since 2017 when Zahid Valencia and Tanner Hall both took third, the fourth consecutive season ASU has celebrated at least four All-Americans, and the seventh time in program history ASU has finished with four All-Americans. ASU has now finished in the top-10 21 times. Courtney, McGee, Parco and Schultz all earned All-America honors. Parco, McGee and Schultz are all now three-time All-Americans, while Courtney is a four-time All-American. In ASU's history there's now been 15 three-time All-Americans and just five four-time AAs.
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS (NCAA REGIONAL APPEARANCE 13TH PLACE/ 60.80 POINTS)
Sun Devil Gymnastics ended the 2023 regular season with a 7-6 record, finishing up the season ranked No. 15 on Road to Nationals in head coach Jay Santos' seventh season. This is the sixth year in a row that the Gym Devils finished the season ranked in the top-25. Earning a team NQS of 197.105, this is the third time ever that ASU ended the regular season with an NQS over 197, two of which have been while Santos has been in Tempe. Seeded for the third season in a row for the postseason, the Sun Devils advanced to the NCAA Regional Finals for the second time in three years. The best score of the season came against a victory over No. 11 Oregon State. The team scored a 197.725, the ninth-highest score in ASU history. The team had an eight-meet streak of scoring 196.000 or better throughout the regular season. That run included a three-meet winning streak where the Gym Devils upset then-No. 4 Utah, set a program record road score in a win over Washington, and dealt then-No. 11 Oregon State its first loss of the season. At the 2023 Pac-12 Championships, the Gym Devils took first in the first session with a 196.700, the program's third-highest score at a conference championship meet ever. As a team, Arizona State saw success due to the consistent performances from the individuals all season long. The Gym Devils won 30 event titles, led by senior Hannah Scharf with 11, four of which were in the all-around. Junior Emily White finished with seven, while juniors Anaya Smith and Sarah Clark had four each. Scharf continued her standout career as a Sun Devil, competing in the all-around in every meet and ending the season ranked No. 21 in the nation in the all-around. She competed as an individual at the NCAA Championships in the all-around. At NCAA Regionals, she finished second in the second session in all-around with a 39.625 to send her to nationals, her fourth all-around total of 39.625-plus this season. Also at regionals, she took home the beam event title with a 9.950, matching her career high and setting a new season high. Her all-around career-high of 39.675 that she earned against Utah is tied for the 10th-best all-around mark in program history.
MEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (19TH PLACE / 54 POINTS)
Sun Devil Track and Field returned to Tempe with a pair of first-team All-Americans after the NCAA Indoor Championships. Turner Washington claimed his sixth NCAA medal with his third-place (bronze) finish in the shot put, while the men's 4x400 relay group of Jalen Drayden, Jeremiah Curry, Dubem Nwachukwu and Justin Robinson finished fourth to earn first-team honors. Robinson took ninth in the 400m too, earning second-team All-America honors. As a team, the Sun Devils finished 19th with 11 points.
WOMEN'S SWIMMING (27TH PLACE / 47 POINTS)
The Sun Devil Women showcased their youth in all of 2022-23, where a handful of underclassmen came up in big spots throughout the year. Charli Brown, Ieva Maluka, Iza Adame, Emma Gehlert, Katherine Randall, Indigo Armon, Izzy Krantzcke and Ginger McMahon were among the many underclassmen to make an impact this season, a sign that the Sun Devils have the foundation to continue growing in the coming years. The Sun Devils were terrific down the stretch to close out the regular season, in which they won three of their final four dual meets -- (Washington State, No. 11 Cal and Arizona). In the regular season finale for Sun Devil Swim & Dive, in which they recognized 13 seniors for Senior Day, the 123-point margin of victory by the Women is the largest over Arizona since at least 1998. Lindsay Looney became fourth women's swimmer of the Bob Bowman era to win at the Pac-12 Championships, where she won the 200 fly and 500 free. Weeks later, Looney became a First-Team All-American at the NCAA Championships by taking fourth in the 200 fly. She also placed 13th in the 500 free.
WOMEN'S GOLF (NCAA REGIONAL APPEARANCE / T37TH PLACE / 34 POINTS)
The eight-time national champion Sun Devil Women's Golf team finished the 2022-23 season with a seventh-place run at the Raleigh Regional. Arizona State finishes the season ranked in the Top-15 in all three major polls. The Maroon & Gold recorded five Top-5 and three Top-3 finishes. Head Coach Missy Farr-Kaye's team was ranked as high as eighth this season. Team set a 18-hole vs. par scoring record in first round of Pac-12 PrevIew. Ashley Menne was tabbed as an All-American by WGCA and Golfweek. Four Sun Devils were selected to the Pac-12 All-Conference Team. Two won Pac-12 Golfer of the Week during the season. Arizona State hosted both the Pac-12 Championship and NCAA Championship. Coach Farr-Kaye signs contract extension through 2027-28. Associate Head Coach Michelle Estill announced her retirement from ASU after seven seasons with the program. Legendary alumna Anna Nordqvist was inducted into Sun Devil Athletics Hall of Fame.
WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD (43RD PLACE / 28.50 POINTS)
Dion Miller's Sun Devils had one of the best track and field seasons in over a decade in 2023. The outdoor season saw ASU earn 10 All-Americans, a pair of Pac-12 titles, four program records, 19 program record updates, and a near NCAA 4x400 record. Christina Warren broke the program triple jump record in back-to-back meets; and Adriana Tatum and Jeremiah Curry both shattered ASU's men's and women's 200m records. The Sun Devils celebrated the men's 4x400 relay and high jumper Grace Campbell earning gold medals at the Pac-12 Championships, with seven total medals being earned at the conference championships.
MEN'S BASKETBALL (NCAA FIRST ROUND APPEARANCE / 25 POINTS)
Vice President for University Athletics Ray Anderson announced that Sun Devil Men's Basketball Head Coach Bobby Hurley has agreed to an extension that will keep him with the program through the 2026 season, as ASU is in the midst of one of the most successful eras in program history. ASU went 23-13 in 2022-23 and reached the NCAA Tournament for the third time in past five chances, and won at least 20 games in four of the past six seasons. It marked only the fifth time since 1980-81 that ASU won 23 games. ASU reached the Pac-12 Tournament semifinal round for only the fourth time in program history, and had 13 wins away from home, seven in true road games and six at neutral sites during the 2022-23 season. It included victories over Michigan and VCU at the Legends Classic, as Coach Hurley won his third preseason tournament at Arizona State, and ASU had massive wins over Creighton, at Arizona, at Oregon, USC and at Colorado to seal the NCAA Tournament berth. ASU now has two wins in Tucson in the last five years, tied for second most in the Pac-12 in that span. The Sun Devils also swept two road Pac-12 series (Oregon, Bays just the third time since joining the conference and the first since the 1980-81 season that Arizona State has swept two road series in the same season.
SOCCER (NCAA FIRST ROUND APPEARANCE / 25 POINTS)
The 2022 season – one that included the program's second NCAA appearance in three seasons – came to an end in a 3-0 loss at No. 8 seed Portland in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA match was the last for ASU's outstanding quartet of fifth-year seniors: forwards Nicole Douglas and Olivia Nguyen and midfield players Alexia Delgado and Eva van Deursen. The four players combined for 337 games played and 298 starts while collectively amassing 101 goals and 73 assists. ASU opened up the season 6-0-2 and during that span, Nicole Douglas became the first Sun Devil two-time United Soccer Coaches All-American. After earning third-team recognition in 2021 the first Sun Devil to earn All-America honors since 2002, the greatest forward in Sun Devil Soccer history was one of 11 student-athletes named as a 2022 second-team honoree. She broke Stacey Tullock's 21-year-old program record in career goals, scoring two goals against UAB on Sep. 1st to give her the record. Douglas would go on to score 14 goals, three assists and be named the Pac-12's Forward of the Year as well as earn first-team All-Pac-12 honors. She finished the season eighth in the country in goals per game (0.78) and 13th in points per game (1.72). Van Deursen tied Stacey Tullock for the program record in assists with 25. She finished the season with seven goals and five assists. Alexia Delgado also scored a career high five goals on the season. Delgado and Van Deursen, along with freshman goalie Pauline Nelles, received all-conference honors, with Delgado being named to the second team and Van Derusen and Nelles on the third team. Eight players found the back of the net for the nation's 28th-ranked scoring offense. The Sun Devils featured five new players in their starting lineup, including goalie and Pac-12 All-Freshman selection goalie Pauline Nelles. Douglas became the first Sun Devil to earn.
WOMEN'S TENNIS (NCAA FIRST ROUND APPEARANCE / 33RD PLACE / 25 POINTS
Another spring season has come and gone for head coach Sheila McInerney and her Sun Devils, who are freshly removed from a 35th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and an impressive 17-win campaign. After their 4-0 sweep of No. 48 Arizona in the regular season finale, the Sun Devils moved to 17-5, marking their second straight 17-win campaign and the 13th time under McInerney they've won 17 matches or more in consecutive seasons. It also pushed them to 7-3 in league play, their best season against conference foes since 2018 (7-3). For the second consecutive spring, the Sun Devils caught fire when they needed it most, closing out the regular season on a five-match win streak (No. 29 USC, No. 26 UCLA, No. 54 Colorado, No. 48 Utah and No. 48 Arizona). All spring long, the Sun Devils found themselves ranked in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) team, singles and doubles polls. They were ranked as high as the No. 19 team in the nation, while the Domenika Turkovic/Patricija Spaka duo were ranked as best as No. 7 in early February.
Here is a sport-by-sport breakdown of the sports that notched points.
2022-23 LEARFIELD DIRECTORS' CUP -- 7th IN PAC-12 -- 659 TOTAL POINTS -- 35th OVERALL
90.00 -- Men's Swimming (2nd)
75.00 -- Men's Outdoor Track and Field (5th)
72.75 -- Men's Golf (5th)
72.00 -- Wrestling (7th)
60.80 -- Gymnastics (13th/NCAA Regional Appearance)
54.00 -- Men's Indoor Track and Field (19th)
50.00 -- Men's Tennis (NCAA Round of 32/17th)
47.00 -- Women's Swimming (27th)
34.00 -- Women's Golf (NCAA Regional appearance/T-37th)
28.50 -- Women's Outdoor Track and Field (43rd)
25.00 -- Men's Basketball (NCAA first-round appearance)
25.00 -- Soccer (NCAA first-round appearance)
25.00 -- Women's Tennis (NCAA first-round appearance/33rd)
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MEN'S SWIMMING (2ND PLACE / 90 POINTS)
Men's swimming put a stamp on their incredible 2022-23 season by finishing second at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center to secure the best national finish in school history. The Sun Devils had previously never finished better than sixth at the national championships. Their two best showings, both sixth-place efforts, came in 1982 and 2022. They scored just 236 points at last year's championship, a number they cleared after the 10th event this week. Léon Marchand took the 200 breast in NCAA record-setting time of 1:46.91, breaking his own mark of 1:47.67 that he set at the Pac-12 Championships. Marchand won the 200 IM, 200 breast and 400 IM this week in Minneapolis, setting new NCAA records in each event. The Sun Devils stormed to their first Pac-12 Championship in program history in early March, where they won nine races, broke eight school records and never once let go of their clutch of first place. It snapped a streak of five consecutive conference titles won by the Cal Golden Bears. In December, the Sun Devils earned the No. 1 ranking in the country by the CSCAA for the first time in school history. They steamrolled their way through the early months of 2023, taking down No. 12 Stanford, No. 2 Cal and No. 19 Arizona in a two-week span. They carried that momentum into March, where they compiled the greatest postseason stretch in school history. Marchand earned Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year and CSCAA Division I Swimmer of the Year honors for the second consecutive season. Jonny Kulow was named the conference's Freshman of the Year, becoming the fourth Sun Devil of the Bob Bowman era to win the award.
MEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD (5TH / 75 POINTS)
Dion Miller's Sun Devils had one of the best track and field seasons in over a decade in 2023. The outdoor season saw ASU earn 10 All-Americans, a pair of Pac-12 titles, four program records, 19 program record updates, and a near NCAA 4x400 record. Turner Washington earned his fifth NCAA title and became a nine-time All-American; the men's 4x100 and 4x400 relay squads both ran program records at the NCAA Championships - the 4x400 time being the No. 3 time in NCAA history; Christina Warren broke the program triple jump record in back-to-back meets; and Adriana Tatum and Jeremiah Curry both shattered ASU's men's and women's 200m records. The Sun Devils celebrated the men's 4x400 relay and high jumper Grace Campbell earning gold medals at the Pac-12 Championships, with seven total medals being earned at the conference championships.
MEN'S GOLF (5TH / 72.75 POINTS)
The Sun Devil men's golf team under seventh-year head coach and GCAA 2022-23 West Region Coach of the Year Matt Thurmond advanced to NCAA championship match play for the third straight season, finished third in the Golfstat rankings, won its Thunderbird Invitational and the Las Vegas Regional while sophomore Preston Summerhays earned first-team All-America honors. ASU did all that with just one returning starter (Summerhays) from its 2022 NCAA semifinalist lineup and had two freshmen in the lineup most of the year. Arizona State posted a 143-27-3 head-to-head record on the season (per Golfweek), and had the most wins of any team against both top 25 (68-26-3) and top 50 (104-27-3) foes. ASU's schedule was second-best in nation, behind only Texas.
WRESTLING (SEVENTH PLACE / 72 POINTS)
ASU finished seventh overall at the NCAA Championships in Tulsa. It had four All-Americans and a pair of top-three finishers. Brandon Courtney and Michael McGee finished third at 125 and133, respectively, while 149 Kyle Parco finished fourth and HWT Cohlton Schultz finished seventh. It's the first time a pair of Sun Devils have finished top three since 2017 when Zahid Valencia and Tanner Hall both took third, the fourth consecutive season ASU has celebrated at least four All-Americans, and the seventh time in program history ASU has finished with four All-Americans. ASU has now finished in the top-10 21 times. Courtney, McGee, Parco and Schultz all earned All-America honors. Parco, McGee and Schultz are all now three-time All-Americans, while Courtney is a four-time All-American. In ASU's history there's now been 15 three-time All-Americans and just five four-time AAs.
WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS (NCAA REGIONAL APPEARANCE 13TH PLACE/ 60.80 POINTS)
Sun Devil Gymnastics ended the 2023 regular season with a 7-6 record, finishing up the season ranked No. 15 on Road to Nationals in head coach Jay Santos' seventh season. This is the sixth year in a row that the Gym Devils finished the season ranked in the top-25. Earning a team NQS of 197.105, this is the third time ever that ASU ended the regular season with an NQS over 197, two of which have been while Santos has been in Tempe. Seeded for the third season in a row for the postseason, the Sun Devils advanced to the NCAA Regional Finals for the second time in three years. The best score of the season came against a victory over No. 11 Oregon State. The team scored a 197.725, the ninth-highest score in ASU history. The team had an eight-meet streak of scoring 196.000 or better throughout the regular season. That run included a three-meet winning streak where the Gym Devils upset then-No. 4 Utah, set a program record road score in a win over Washington, and dealt then-No. 11 Oregon State its first loss of the season. At the 2023 Pac-12 Championships, the Gym Devils took first in the first session with a 196.700, the program's third-highest score at a conference championship meet ever. As a team, Arizona State saw success due to the consistent performances from the individuals all season long. The Gym Devils won 30 event titles, led by senior Hannah Scharf with 11, four of which were in the all-around. Junior Emily White finished with seven, while juniors Anaya Smith and Sarah Clark had four each. Scharf continued her standout career as a Sun Devil, competing in the all-around in every meet and ending the season ranked No. 21 in the nation in the all-around. She competed as an individual at the NCAA Championships in the all-around. At NCAA Regionals, she finished second in the second session in all-around with a 39.625 to send her to nationals, her fourth all-around total of 39.625-plus this season. Also at regionals, she took home the beam event title with a 9.950, matching her career high and setting a new season high. Her all-around career-high of 39.675 that she earned against Utah is tied for the 10th-best all-around mark in program history.
MEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (19TH PLACE / 54 POINTS)
Sun Devil Track and Field returned to Tempe with a pair of first-team All-Americans after the NCAA Indoor Championships. Turner Washington claimed his sixth NCAA medal with his third-place (bronze) finish in the shot put, while the men's 4x400 relay group of Jalen Drayden, Jeremiah Curry, Dubem Nwachukwu and Justin Robinson finished fourth to earn first-team honors. Robinson took ninth in the 400m too, earning second-team All-America honors. As a team, the Sun Devils finished 19th with 11 points.
WOMEN'S SWIMMING (27TH PLACE / 47 POINTS)
The Sun Devil Women showcased their youth in all of 2022-23, where a handful of underclassmen came up in big spots throughout the year. Charli Brown, Ieva Maluka, Iza Adame, Emma Gehlert, Katherine Randall, Indigo Armon, Izzy Krantzcke and Ginger McMahon were among the many underclassmen to make an impact this season, a sign that the Sun Devils have the foundation to continue growing in the coming years. The Sun Devils were terrific down the stretch to close out the regular season, in which they won three of their final four dual meets -- (Washington State, No. 11 Cal and Arizona). In the regular season finale for Sun Devil Swim & Dive, in which they recognized 13 seniors for Senior Day, the 123-point margin of victory by the Women is the largest over Arizona since at least 1998. Lindsay Looney became fourth women's swimmer of the Bob Bowman era to win at the Pac-12 Championships, where she won the 200 fly and 500 free. Weeks later, Looney became a First-Team All-American at the NCAA Championships by taking fourth in the 200 fly. She also placed 13th in the 500 free.
WOMEN'S GOLF (NCAA REGIONAL APPEARANCE / T37TH PLACE / 34 POINTS)
The eight-time national champion Sun Devil Women's Golf team finished the 2022-23 season with a seventh-place run at the Raleigh Regional. Arizona State finishes the season ranked in the Top-15 in all three major polls. The Maroon & Gold recorded five Top-5 and three Top-3 finishes. Head Coach Missy Farr-Kaye's team was ranked as high as eighth this season. Team set a 18-hole vs. par scoring record in first round of Pac-12 PrevIew. Ashley Menne was tabbed as an All-American by WGCA and Golfweek. Four Sun Devils were selected to the Pac-12 All-Conference Team. Two won Pac-12 Golfer of the Week during the season. Arizona State hosted both the Pac-12 Championship and NCAA Championship. Coach Farr-Kaye signs contract extension through 2027-28. Associate Head Coach Michelle Estill announced her retirement from ASU after seven seasons with the program. Legendary alumna Anna Nordqvist was inducted into Sun Devil Athletics Hall of Fame.
WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD (43RD PLACE / 28.50 POINTS)
Dion Miller's Sun Devils had one of the best track and field seasons in over a decade in 2023. The outdoor season saw ASU earn 10 All-Americans, a pair of Pac-12 titles, four program records, 19 program record updates, and a near NCAA 4x400 record. Christina Warren broke the program triple jump record in back-to-back meets; and Adriana Tatum and Jeremiah Curry both shattered ASU's men's and women's 200m records. The Sun Devils celebrated the men's 4x400 relay and high jumper Grace Campbell earning gold medals at the Pac-12 Championships, with seven total medals being earned at the conference championships.
MEN'S BASKETBALL (NCAA FIRST ROUND APPEARANCE / 25 POINTS)
Vice President for University Athletics Ray Anderson announced that Sun Devil Men's Basketball Head Coach Bobby Hurley has agreed to an extension that will keep him with the program through the 2026 season, as ASU is in the midst of one of the most successful eras in program history. ASU went 23-13 in 2022-23 and reached the NCAA Tournament for the third time in past five chances, and won at least 20 games in four of the past six seasons. It marked only the fifth time since 1980-81 that ASU won 23 games. ASU reached the Pac-12 Tournament semifinal round for only the fourth time in program history, and had 13 wins away from home, seven in true road games and six at neutral sites during the 2022-23 season. It included victories over Michigan and VCU at the Legends Classic, as Coach Hurley won his third preseason tournament at Arizona State, and ASU had massive wins over Creighton, at Arizona, at Oregon, USC and at Colorado to seal the NCAA Tournament berth. ASU now has two wins in Tucson in the last five years, tied for second most in the Pac-12 in that span. The Sun Devils also swept two road Pac-12 series (Oregon, Bays just the third time since joining the conference and the first since the 1980-81 season that Arizona State has swept two road series in the same season.
SOCCER (NCAA FIRST ROUND APPEARANCE / 25 POINTS)
The 2022 season – one that included the program's second NCAA appearance in three seasons – came to an end in a 3-0 loss at No. 8 seed Portland in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA match was the last for ASU's outstanding quartet of fifth-year seniors: forwards Nicole Douglas and Olivia Nguyen and midfield players Alexia Delgado and Eva van Deursen. The four players combined for 337 games played and 298 starts while collectively amassing 101 goals and 73 assists. ASU opened up the season 6-0-2 and during that span, Nicole Douglas became the first Sun Devil two-time United Soccer Coaches All-American. After earning third-team recognition in 2021 the first Sun Devil to earn All-America honors since 2002, the greatest forward in Sun Devil Soccer history was one of 11 student-athletes named as a 2022 second-team honoree. She broke Stacey Tullock's 21-year-old program record in career goals, scoring two goals against UAB on Sep. 1st to give her the record. Douglas would go on to score 14 goals, three assists and be named the Pac-12's Forward of the Year as well as earn first-team All-Pac-12 honors. She finished the season eighth in the country in goals per game (0.78) and 13th in points per game (1.72). Van Deursen tied Stacey Tullock for the program record in assists with 25. She finished the season with seven goals and five assists. Alexia Delgado also scored a career high five goals on the season. Delgado and Van Deursen, along with freshman goalie Pauline Nelles, received all-conference honors, with Delgado being named to the second team and Van Derusen and Nelles on the third team. Eight players found the back of the net for the nation's 28th-ranked scoring offense. The Sun Devils featured five new players in their starting lineup, including goalie and Pac-12 All-Freshman selection goalie Pauline Nelles. Douglas became the first Sun Devil to earn.
WOMEN'S TENNIS (NCAA FIRST ROUND APPEARANCE / 33RD PLACE / 25 POINTS
Another spring season has come and gone for head coach Sheila McInerney and her Sun Devils, who are freshly removed from a 35th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and an impressive 17-win campaign. After their 4-0 sweep of No. 48 Arizona in the regular season finale, the Sun Devils moved to 17-5, marking their second straight 17-win campaign and the 13th time under McInerney they've won 17 matches or more in consecutive seasons. It also pushed them to 7-3 in league play, their best season against conference foes since 2018 (7-3). For the second consecutive spring, the Sun Devils caught fire when they needed it most, closing out the regular season on a five-match win streak (No. 29 USC, No. 26 UCLA, No. 54 Colorado, No. 48 Utah and No. 48 Arizona). All spring long, the Sun Devils found themselves ranked in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) team, singles and doubles polls. They were ranked as high as the No. 19 team in the nation, while the Domenika Turkovic/Patricija Spaka duo were ranked as best as No. 7 in early February.