In Arizona State’s double-overtime win over the Washington Huskies, multiple Sun Devils set career highs in multiple stats en route to a true team win and a season sweep of the University of Washington.
Both sophomore guard Trayanna Crisp and graduate student guard Isadora Sousa scored career-highs in points.
Crisp’s previous career high was when she scored 18 on Dec. 8, 2023, against GCU. She topped that performance with 23 in the win over the Huskies. Sixteen of those points came in the second half.
“We all have each other’s back,” Crisp said. “Even in practice, like when we go against the practice guys, we know that if we trail them, we just need to stick together, and I feel like that’s what we did today.”
Sousa took the reigns in the overtime periods, scoring eight in overtime, finishing with 16 points to set her new career mark.
“She’s so confident, and she’s so poised,” head coach Natasha Adair said. “She just has that veteran leadership.”
While the Sun Devils showed no life offensively in the first half, Crisp, along with sophomore guard Jalyn Brown, started to ignite the Sun Devils offense. Crisp and Brown scored the first ten points of the third quarter for ASU.
The Sun Devils didn’t take many threes in the first half, and they didn’t make any. Crisp was the one who finally hit the first three-pointer in the third quarter. Sousa had the only other Sun Devil three-pointer of the night, a dagger to the hearts of the Huskies late in the second overtime.
Freshman forward Mallory Miller also had a career night, setting numerous new personal marks. Her ten rebounds were the most of her career. She also played the most minutes she’d ever played and had three blocks for the first time in her collegiate career.
Miller also came up huge late in the game, making crucial free throws at the end of the fourth quarter to send the game to overtime.
“It just goes back to being intentional in practice every day and having the mindset that we’re doing this because we want to simulate what happens in a game,” Miller said. “When it happens in a game, when I gotta hit two, that’s why I’m practicing right now.”
This win, while the score was incredibly similar, was far different from the Sun Devils’ win in Seattle earlier this season.
In Seattle, it was all Brown. She had 34 points in the Sun Devils’ road win.
At Desert Financial Arena, she was picked up by her teammates after a rough start and ended up still putting together a solid game.
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