After racking up more than 10,000 miles of travel over a two-week span, the ASU women’s basketball team finally gets to stay in familiar territory this weekend.

The No. 15 Sun Devils (4-1) will play their first home games since the season-opener on Nov. 15 when they host the ASU Classic on Friday and Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena.

“It feels great to be home, and at the same time, it’s just really important that teams don’t take that for granted, especially our team,” ASU head coach Charli Turner Thorne said. “Obviously, it’s our tournament, and we’re going to be ready to represent. It’s our home floor, so we want to protect it.”

ASU will first take on Idaho State on Friday night before facing either Pepperdine or Utah State on Saturday afternoon.

The Sun Devils have won the ASU Classic seven of the last eight years, with the only loss coming in 2007 when they were defeated by Auburn in the championship game.

ASU went 3-1, with its loss coming to No. 9 Xavier, on its most recent road swing that took the Sun Devils from New Haven, Conn., to Cincinnati to Hawaii in less than 10 days.

But Turner Thorne said her team still has plenty of room to improve and that the Sun Devils are more focused on themselves than their opponent at this point in the season.

“We’re certainly far from being the team we want to be,” she said. “We look at the month of December as our last big push to get our team offense and our team defense more solidified going into conference play.

Time has helped us kind of define some roles a little bit better and just teach — every day is a huge teaching day for this team.”

ISU is just 1-6 so far this season and is being outscored by an average of 22.8 points per game, which ranks 326th in the nation among Division I teams.

“They’ve played a really tough schedule,” Turner Thorne said of ISU.

“What I see from Idaho State is a team that’s very good at executing their offense. If we’re not communicating and playing great team defense, they’re going to expose us and get good looks.”

Senior forward Oana Iacovita is the only Bengal consistently scoring in double figures, as she averages 13.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.

Iacovita is also the only ISU player over six feet tall that gets heavy playing time, which should give ASU the advantage in the paint with six players that stand at least that tall.

ASU sophomore center Kali Bennett has been the Sun Devils’ biggest force on the inside recently. She is averaging 15 points and 12.5 rebounds over her last two games, and she was named the Rainbow Wahine Classic MVP last weekend as a result of her performance in the Hawaii tournament.

“It feels like the first couple games I was finding myself,” said Bennett, who is seeing the first action of her ASU career after sitting out last season because of NCAA transfer rules. “Now we’re [about to play] the sixth game, and the whole team’s finding their place, and I’m fitting into where I need to fit in.”

ASU senior guard Danielle Orsillo will likely reach a big milestone this weekend, as she needs just seven points to reach 1,000 for her career.

Orsillo is the Sun Devils’ leading scorer at 12.4 points per game so far this season, despite shooting just 32.9 percent from the floor.

“I’ve been in a slump,” Orsillo said. “I’d be lying if I didn’t say it bugged me, but I just started focusing on the things that are important, like playing defense. I’ve always been a good shooter — who I am isn’t determined by the last couple weeks, so I just keep shooting.”

The Sun Devils will then face either USU or Pepperdine on Saturday, as those two teams will square off following the ASU-ISU contest on Friday.

USU is 4-1 so far this season, while Pepperdine is 4-3, with wins over Providence and Purdue in its last two games.

USU junior guard/forward Amber White leads the Aggies in scoring with 13.8 points per game, and junior guard Alice Coddington averages 10.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per contest.

Pepperdine senior center Miranda Ayim is the reigning West Coast Conference Player of the Week and is averaging 15.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, while sophomore guard Jazmine Jackson is averaging 12.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per contest.

Reach the reporter at gina.mizell@asu.edu.