Sophomore guard Jahii Carson dribbles the ball up the court between defenders against Miami (Ohio). The Sun Devils won 94-50. (Phoot by Vince Dwyyer)The pairings had already been announced, but ASU basketball team's schedule was released Monday night on the Pac-12 Network. The schedule includes game times and television coverage.
The Sun Devils will open the season in Tucson against rival UA on Jan. 4. This is the earliest that the two in-state rivals have played since facing off on New Year's Eve 2011 in Tucson, a game the Wildcats won 68-51.
The Wildcats will visit Tempe on Feb. 7, in a game that will be televised on FOX.
ASU will play three games on the ESPN family of networks, playing on ESPNU when they travel to Stanford on Jan. 24 and Colorado on March 1, then the team will be on ESPN2 when the Sun Devils host the UCLA Bruins on Feb. 18 at Wells Fargo Arena.
FOX SPORTS 1 will show five conference games on the channel, starting with UA.
Since the conference expanded from 10 to 12 teams for the 2011 season, conference schedules changed so that teams play four teams only once.
The Sun Devils will not travel to either of the Los Angeles schools in the 2014-15 season, the only road trip that the team will not make. This will be the first year since at least the 1998-99 season that the Sun Devils will not play a game in Los Angeles.
The only teams that ASU will not host in Tempe are Washington and Washington State. Last season, the Sun Devils did not travel to Washington, but hosted those two teams on Jan. 2 and 5, which opened conference play.
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