...but the Sun Devil hoops team keeps bringing me joy. No Pac-10 had swept UCLA in a season series over the past 3 seasons, until last night when the Devils dropped the Bruins 74-67.
Some may say "big deal" as the Pac-10 and UCLA are down this year but I really don't care. People who haven't followed this program cannot appreciate the ineptitude that Sun Devil nation has endured over the past 30 years with respect to our hoops team.
I can't ever remember a time when ASU fielded a basketball team that could probably hang or beat any team in the country right now with maybe the exception of Duke and UNC. Most teams who turn the ball over 17 times, like the Devils did last night, particularly against a Top 10 team, are probably going to get buried. Also, to see them do it on a nationally televised ESPN game in front of a packed house at WFA and then to watch the students storm the court, frankly I got a little choked up. It's kind of that same feeling I get when I know that a dual-core server I bought back in 2006 would be easily refreshed with quad- or six-core processors in 2009 without any chipset or board changes (sorry, shameless work-related self-promotion.)
Back to the Sun Devils, hopefully they helped hoops fans in the Valley forget for the weekend about how awful the Suns are and helped remind all of Arizona (and the Pac-10) that you have officially now seen a changing of the guard in Arizona college hoops. Sorry Tucson, as Lute goes, so goes your program.
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