The early part of the college basketball season is starting to heat up and this week has had a number of tournaments and special invitaionals going on and the Creighton Bluejays will be playing against the Arizona State Sun Devils in the Wooden Legacy event and the matchup starts at 11 PM live on ESPN2 on TV and streaming on ESPN at Titan Gym in Fullerton, California.
The two teams are playing for the second straight year and Creighton comes in ranked 20th in the nation in the rankings and they are looking to make a nice run into the NCAA tournament this season on the strength of Doug McDermott, who is a player of the year candidate this season. Last year he had a great season and has made the All-American team two years in a row and he is once again leading the season in scoring with nearly 30 points per game and he will once again be the focus of the defense for the Sun Devils when they take on Creighton. Last season McDermott scored 29 points when Creighton took on ASU and each team comes into the game this year undefeated, with Creighton winning its first four games and the Sun Devils coming in 6-0 and now the two teams will face off on Thursday.
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Creighton has an away game against Long Beach State and then they have five straight home matchups and one is against a ranked team in Marquette and right now that is the only team in the top 25 on the schedule for the season. The team comes in ranked seventh in the nation in scoring with 92 points per contest through four games and the team is also first in the nation in assists and in the top 10 in field goal percentage and they are going up against an Arizona State team that is scoring just under 85 points per game this season.
The Pac-12 has a number of solid teams this season and Arizona State comes into the game after a win over Marquette and they have Creighton next on the schedule and later down the line they have UCLA as well as Arizona and Oregon ranked in the top 25. Arizona State plays against DePaul next and the matchup between the Creighton Bluejays and the Arizona State Sun Devils is on ESPN2 and WatchESPN starting up at 11:00 pm.