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Any of the Pac-10 teams can beat one another on any given night, given the correct variables. Witness Arizona State, which was picked to finish no higher than fifth in preseason polls, surpris ingly off to its best start ever. The Sun Devils (9-3 overall, 2-0 Pac 10) began Pac-10 play by beating California and also, for the first time in 14 meetings, the Cardinal — for which head coach Charlie Turner Thorne once played. TEXTBOOKS ONLINE. SAVE UP TO 40%. FREE SHIPPING! FOR $10 OFF** ENTER CODE #650169 AT PURCHASE CHECKOUT Arizona State is healthy, confi dent, and basically, hot, just like their senior guard Kitch Kitchen. She was named the conference’s player of the week after averaging 13 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals in last weekend’s wins. It’s all to the delight of its third year head coach. “Being able to get over the hump against Stanford was a huge boost, for not only our program, but for our kids individually,” Thorne said. “We had the sense that we could beat anybody we play, but we hadn’t really gotten over the hump. It was a big week end for us and hopefully we can continue to change history a little bit — we haven’t played real well in Seattle the past three years. ” It won’t be a surprise if the Sun Devils find themselves 4-0 on Sun day morning, after playing against Washington and Washington State. It’s plausible because the Cougars are bad. Possible because the Huskies are inexperienced and struggling. Still, there’s no presuming any thing. Ready, set, draw The Washington schools cer tainly did their part to help esca late the hype—or attempt at hype — that’s preceding the Southern Califomia-UCLA rivalry match up this weekend at Pauley Pavilion. After beating up on the Wash ington schools, the Women of Troy and the Bruins are both 2-0 in conference play. UCLA beat the Cougars by 27 and the Huskies by 36. And despite the Women of Troy’s shortage of post players, coach Chris Gobrecht won’t allow 6-foot-4 freshman Portia Mitchell to play until she can run 1 1/2 miles in 11 minutes, “Every player in the last 20 years has been able to do that,” Gobrecht told the Los Angeles Times, “I’m not going to compromise on that requirement now” — they beat Washington State by 10 and Washington by 11. In honor of the occasion, the Bru ins’ marketing people are making a push to set a Pac-10 single-game at tendance record, according to UCLA head coach Kathy Olivier. The Bruins currently rank third in conference attendance, draw ing 3,441 fans per game. Oregon is first, averaging 4,720, and Stan * ford is second, at 3,768. Undoubtedly, drawing big crowds to watch women’s college hoops is harder in an international hotbed of entertainment like L.A. than it is in smaller cities like Eugene. “UCLA and USC have the most difficult jobs in the conference as far as attracting fan support,” Gobrecht said. “The things we have to deal with are entirely different than what Oregon has to deal with. “ [We] have to make sure you win. ii UCLA and USC have the most difficult jobs in the conference as far as attracting fan support. Chris Gobrecht coach, UCLA We’ve got to play attractive sched ules, we have to be highly competi tive and exciting teams and then we have to get the media to really be lieve that this is good stuff. And if you can do it in L.A.” Well, UCLA is supposedly go ing to give it a shot. “We’re excited about having two good L.A. teams playing each other,” Olivier said. “Hopefully, we’ll set a Pac-10 record, like we’re trying to do. ” Among the ongoing promotions Olivier mentioned was an event called “Going to college,” which is targeted at local high school stu dents who are invited to attend a pregame discussion featuring UCLA athletes talking about fu ture career opportunities. However, the Bruins’ ticket of fice is in the dark about the afore mentioned activities, Not messing around anymore Ignorant, like the Bruins’ point guard Erica Gomez claimed her teammates were about UCLA’s playbook. In an effort to get a rise out of her teammates, fire them up and make them mad, she blasted her team mates in the L.A. 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