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ASU Basketball: 2019 Pac-12 Week 14 Power Rankings

By Trevor Booth

TEMPE, ARIZONA - JANUARY 31: Romello White #23 reacts with teammate De'Quon Lake #32 of the Arizona State Sun Devils after the Sun Devils beat the Arizona Wildcats 95-88 in overtime of the the college basketball game at Wells Fargo Arena on January 31, 2019 in Tempe, Arizona. (Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images)
TEMPE, ARIZONA - JANUARY 31: Romello White #23 reacts with teammate De'Quon Lake #32 of the Arizona State Sun Devils after the Sun Devils beat the Arizona Wildcats 95-88 in overtime of the the college basketball game at Wells Fargo Arena on January 31, 2019 in Tempe, Arizona. (Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images) /
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FULLERTON, CA – NOVEMBER 23: Robert Franks #3 of the Washington State Cougars heads to the bench for a time out in the second half of the game against the Saint Joseph’s Hawks at the Titan Gym on November 23, 2017 in Fullerton, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
FULLERTON, CA – NOVEMBER 23: Robert Franks #3 of the Washington State Cougars heads to the bench for a time out in the second half of the game against the Saint Joseph’s Hawks at the Titan Gym on November 23, 2017 in Fullerton, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /

11. Washington State Cougars (8-14, 1-8 Pac-12) LW: 11

For a while, it looked like Washington State was primed to make a splash in the Pac-12. Starting the season 5-2, they looked ready to make a slight leap.

Well, that simply hasn’t been the case. The Cougars have fallen back into familiar losing habits and amass the second-worst record in the conference, sitting at 8-14 overall and 1-8 in league play.

Despite the heroic individual efforts from Robert Franks and CJ Elleby, the team simply doesn’t have enough on either end to legitimately compete in the conference.

Franks is scoring an impressive 21.4 points per game while shooting above 50 percent from the field and a shed under 35 percent from downtown. He has been a standout player in all of the NCAA this season and has crafted a case to play professionally post college.

But as we all know, hoops is a team game. And standing as losers of five straight conference games, WSU marches into ‘State 48’ for a two-game set against the University of Arizona and Arizona State, two of the conference’s better teams this season.

Right now, things aren’t looking great for Wazzu. The Wildcats are on yet another down-swing but still heavily out-class the Cougars, and ASU has re-established its identity and is playing good basketball again.

It only gets worse from there, as the Cougars take on their rival and the conference-leading Washington Huskies the following game in Pullman.

– Richard Geraffo 

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